Controlling Page Margins

You might have noticed that when you open a word processor document that was created using ODS RTF, the document has very narrow margins. By default, ODS creates RTF output with one-quarterinch margins on the top, bottom, right, and left sides. You can see these margins by opening an RTF file created by ODS and selecting Page Setup. Figure 4.17 shows the margin settings from the Page Setup window in Microsoft Word 2003. All four margins are set to 0.25", which is the default value for ODS RTF output (set in the style template in SAS 9.2).

Starting in SAS 9.2, it's easy to adjust the margins by changing the SAS system options for margins: TOPMARGIN=, BOTTOMMARGIN=, LEFTMARGIN=, and RIGHTMARGIN=. For example, the following ...

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