Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Controlling Page Orientation

When you have a table that is tall and skinny, it makes sense to print it in portrait layout. But when you have a table that is wider than it is tall, a landscape layout makes more sense. By default, if you don't change any options, ODS RTF creates portrait output.

If you have a wide table, like that shown in Figure 4.10, you might decide that you don't like the default portrait orientation. In this PROC MEANS analysis of the data set CLIPS, the variable labels for variables MENTIONS and COMPETE are too wide to fit their columns, so the text wraps and does not align with the statistics. This can be remedied by switching the orientation of the output to landscape. Here is the code that produces Figure 4.10:

ODS RTF ...