Overview of Enhancing Reports

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Enhancing Reports

Lesson Overview

Introduction

When you create reports, you may want to make your data easy to interpret by adding titles and footnotes, replacing variable names with descriptive labels, or formatting variable values.

This lesson shows you how to specify these enhancements. Although this lesson focuses on reports and uses PROC PRINT output in examples, you can apply these enhancements to any SAS procedure output.

Report enhanced with titles, footnotes, labels, and formats

This lesson contains 27 pages and takes approximately 45-60 minutes to complete.

Objectives

In this lesson, you learn to

add titles and footnotes
replace variable names with descriptive labels
format data values.

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, you should have completed the following lessons:

Introduction to SAS Programming

Working in the SAS Environment
Basic Concepts
Editing and Debugging SAS Programs
Setting Up Your SAS Session

Producing Basic Reports (at least one of the following)

Creating List Reports
Creating Tabular Reports
Creating Plots
Creating Bar and Pie Charts
Performing Queries Using SQL