The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.2

Chapter  3

Changing the Way Data Values Are Displayed

3.1   Applying Standard Formats in a Data Grid 

3.2   Applying Standard Formats in a Task 

3.3   Defining Your Own Character Formats 

3.4   Defining Your Own Numeric Formats 

3.5   Applying User-Defined Formats  

3.1     Applying Standard Formats in a Data Grid

When you open a Data Grid, SAS Enterprise Guide decides how the data should be displayed—how many decimal places to show, for example, and whether to use a dollar or percent sign. Most of the time this is fine, but sometimes you may want to change the way a column looks. You can do this by telling SAS Enterprise Guide to use a different display format.

Here is a Data Grid showing the Eruptions data table. The columns StartDate ...