Chapter 1. Why Use ODS?
If all you want are quick results displayed to the screen or roughly printed out in a stack of output, you can put this book away right now.
However, if you're like the rest of us, you want more from your output. That's because most SAS output is shared with others.
You want your output to be appealing, to help you tell a story. You want your output to be impressive: it should look like you worked on it for hours, even if it took you only a few minutes. In addition, you want your output to be easy to share with other software applications and other users, whether they are across the hall from your office or across the globe.
This chapter shows how you can take some basic SAS output and transform it from a simple line-printer ...
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