In the lesson Enhancing Reports, you saw that adding titles and footnotes, replacing variable names with descriptive labels, or formatting variable values can increase the clarity of your SAS output. SAS software provides these and many additional ways to enhance the appearance and effectiveness of your SAS/GRAPH output.

This lesson reviews how to assign titles, footnotes, labels, and formats. Then it shows you how to enhance titles and footnotes, control statistics in bar charts, and assign labels to statistics in horizontal bar charts. As you enhance your graphs, you'll learn how to use RUN-group processing to make it easier to create the graphs you want. You'll also learn to export your SAS/GRAPH output in a wide range of formats.

This lesson contains 35 pages and takes approximately 60-90 minutes to complete.

Objectives

In this lesson, you learn to

• replace variable names with descriptive labels
• format data values
• add titles and footnotes
• specify color, height, and font for text in titles and footnotes
• format and control the labels for statistics in horizontal bar charts
• control statistics in vertical bar charts
• take advantage of  RUN-group processing
• export graphs in a wide range of formats
• specify the width and height of graphs.

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 Plots
• Creating Bar and Pie Charts

Enhancing and Storing Output

• Enhancing Reports