Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Adding Text

One of the reasons RTF is such a useful output destination is that we can cut and paste from the RTF document or we can add explanatory text to our RTF document to build our final report. But wouldn't it be nice if the entire report could be generated automatically?

To insert text into an RTF document, use the TEXT= option on an ODS statement to write to all open destinations, including RTF. The following statement inserts text into an open RTF destination file:

ODS TEXT='Text to insert';

You also need to add the STARTPAGE=OFF option to your ODS statement to prevent SAS from inserting page breaks between your table and text.

The output from the following program contains results from one ODS table from the PROC CORR step and adds ...