More on Page Breaks Using the NEWFILE= Option

We have already discussed using the NEWFILE= option. In comparison to the previous example, you can use the NEWFILE= option to have ODS start a new file for each procedure or for each BY group.

If you generate a table of contents, the user can easily navigate from page to page and print out a single item, which ideally will fit on one page. The catch to this is that if your output is 300 pages long, you probably don't want to have your users printing all 300 pages one page at a time.

Figure 3.15 shows the resulting pages that the user could print if you used NEWFILE=PROC in the same code as that used for the CSS example. The first page shown comes from the PROC TABULATE step. The second two pages ...

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