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SAS Global Forum 2011

SAS® Enterprise Guide® Implementation and Usage

Paper 310-2011
Enhancing Your Output from SAS®Enterprise Guide® –
Creating Something a Little Different.

Brian Bee
The Knowledge Warehouse Limited
Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract

In the enhancement of your report output, you are limited only by your imagination!
SAS®Enterprise Guide® has become a very powerful, yet easy-to-use, reporting tool in your Business
Intelligence applications. In this presentation we will explore some options for enhancing your output, ranging from applying a simple SAS-supplied format, through to some complex conditional highlighting, and the use of the Output Delivery System (ODS). Sample code will be included so you can take advantage of these tools without really having to learn the detail of them if you don’t wish to. We will also examine some older techniques that are still in common usage, such as Annotate and Data Step
Graphics Interface, and some of the latest techniques that have been included in the new SAS®
Enterprise Guide® 4.3 toolkit .

Introduction
The main purpose of this paper is to explore the many and varied means of enhancing the output you produce from SAS® Enterprise Guide®. The presentation has been broken into two categories. The first addresses techniques that can be used without any programming knowledge by using the available menus from SAS® Enterprise Guide® as it is installed. In the second category, some techniques that require some programming expertise are addressed.

SAS Global Forum 2011

SAS® Enterprise Guide® Implementation and Usage

No Programming Required!
The following techniques require no extra code, and can be achieved by using the available options from the standard task menus and wizards.

Titles
Most reports need a title! SAS® Enterprise Guide® provides a unique default title for each different task.
In most cases, the default title is the task name, with occasionally an