Quick Tips

  • You can change variable labels with the LABEL= statement. If want to modify the label of the same variable that is used in a number of places in the same table, use the LABEL= statement.
  • You can change keyword labels with the KEYWORD= statement. If want to modify the label of the same keyword that used in a number of places in the same table, use the KEYWORD= statement.
  • You can change variable and keyword labels individually in the TABLE statement.
  • Unlike PROC PRINT, PROC TABULATE does not have a SPLIT= option. Therefore, if you have variables with long labels containing split characters that indicate where to put line breaks, you need to remove these characters and create shorter variable labels to use in PROC ...

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