Introduction to the Basics of Understanding and Customizing SAS Output

Purpose

In this section, you will learn to understand your output so that you can enhance its appearance and make it more informative. It discusses DATA step and PROC step output.
This section describes how to enhance the appearance of your output by doing the following:
  • adding titles, column headings, footnotes, and labels
  • customizing headings
  • changing a portion of a heading
  • numbering pages and controlling page divisions
  • printing date and time values
  • representing missing numeric values with a character

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this section, you should understand the concepts that are presented in the following sections:

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