HAVE YOU EVER WISHED THAT YOU DO NOT NEED TO TYPE OR CHANGE REPORT NUMBERS AND TITLES IN YOUR SAS ® PROGRAMS?

In clinical research, the table of contents in a statistical analysis plan is an evolving document. The table of contents contains a list of tables, listings, appendices and figures that are referred to as reports in this paper. The report numbers and titles are subject to change when analysis requirements change. As a result, programmers need to renumber reports and retype titles in the SAS programs from time to time. This paper describes a programmatic approach of retrieving the report numbers and titles from a common source file. The common source file serves a dual purpose of generating a table of contents in a Microsoft Word document and outputting a SAS data set with report numbers and titles. Statisticians can incorporate the Word document as table of contents in a statistical analysis plan. Programmers can create macro variables from the SAS data set for use as titles in reports. During presentation, a demonstration will be given to show how you can make your wish come true