Quick Results with Output Delivery System

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Quick Results with the Output Delivery System

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Sunil Gupta, Sunil.Gupta@Quintiles.com

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SAS’s new Output Delivery System (ODS) as introduced in version 8.2 opens a whole new world of options in generating quality, detailed presentation output. ODS enables the creation of various new file types including Rich Text Format (RTF), PDF, PostScript, HTML and SAS data sets. SAS users can take advantage of ODS features to easily convert existing SAS code into these new file types. By having a selection of styles available to choose from, SAS users can control the report’s overall color scheme, font and size. This paper introduces the concepts necessary to understand and apply the basic features of SAS’s ODS. Issues in defining and selecting output destinations, selecting output objects and creating output files will be discussed. The focus is on the creation of various types of output files through step-by-step examples.