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Ask the Expert: The SAS Output Delivery System (ODS)

Part of the SAS Ask the Expert series

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About the Webinar 

The SAS Output Delivery System is part of base SAS and enables the creation of SAS output in multiple document types including Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Word (DOCX) Excel (XLSX) PowerPoint (PPTX) multiple variations of HTML, Extensible Markup Language (XML) Electronic book (EPUB) Comma separated variable (CSV), Latex, SAS dataset (sasv7bdat), Rich Text (RTF), monospaced text (ODS LISTING), Printer destinations (PostScript, PCL) and vendor-neutral output (ODS Document).

What you'll learn:

  • Introduction: ODS basics
  • Example: ODS HTML
  • Using SAS-supplied styles
  • Creating custom styles
  • ODS output and ODS trace – exporting results as SAS datasets
  • Example: ODS PDF
  • Using ODS document and proc template to customise the table of contents
  • Traffic-lighting a table using custom styles
  • SAS statistical graphics procedures and ODS Graphics: overview

About our Expert


Peter Hobart

Sr Associate Customer Success Manager, SAS

Peter is a certified SAS advanced programmer, data integration developer and SAS platform administrator. He has worked at SAS for 26 years, in customer support, education, architecture and now customer success. He has written several SAS courses and questions for the SAS certification exams, presented at SAS forums and customer events. 

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