MAKE EASY STYLE TEMPLATES USING SAS MACROBarbara Harlan

ABOUT THE PAPER

This paper’s primary purpose is to show you how to create a style template so that you can output all of your SAS tables into Word without having to format in Word

Why not just format in Word? It saves time if you are output lots of tables that will need the same formatting (like the Dashboards). Also if the table needs to be twirked later (like editing an observation) you can quickly output the new table without having to redo all the formatting.

OUTPUTTING SAS TABLESBarbara Harlan

OUTPUT DELIVERY SYSTEM (ODS)

LISTING produces traditional SAS output HTML produces output for online viewing MARKUP produces output for markup

language tagsets (like Excel)

OUTPUT produces SAS output datasets PRINTER produces presentation-ready

printed reports RTF produces output suitable for

Microsoft Word reports

ODS CODE

Syntax:ODS destination_name FILE=“filename”;* Your SAS procedure code here;ODS destination_name CLOSE;

Example:ODS RTF FILE= “myoutput.rtf” ;PROC PRINT DATA=sashelp.class;RUN;ODS RTF CLOSE;

Note:You must close the ODS for the file to be createdBe sure to attach the appropriate extension on the end of the

filename (i.e. “filename.rtf for an rtf destination”)

STYLE OPTION

By default, ODS uses the default SAS style template for the selected destination. By using the STYLE= setting you can switch to a different SAS supplied style or your custom style.

Example: ODS RTF FILE= “myoutput.rtf” STYLE=brick; PROC PRINT DATA=sashelp.class; RUN; ODS RTF CLOSE;

Obs Name Sex Age Height Weight1 Alfred M 14 69.0 112.5

2 Alice F 13 56.5 84.0

3 Barbara F 13 65.3 98.0

Sample of the default style for RTF output:

Sample of the “Brick” style supplied by SAS:

Obs Name Sex Age Height Weight1 Alfred M 14 69.0 112.5

2 Alice F 13 56.5 84.0

3 Barbara F 13 65.3 98.0

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH ODS AND EXCEL

REQUIREMENTS

Base SAS Software, 9.1.3 or later, any operating system

recent version of the ExcelXP ODS tagset

http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/odsmarkup/excltags.tpl

Microsoft Excel 2002 (aka Excel XP) or later

BASIC CODE

ods tagsets.ExcelXP file='MyWorkbook.xml' style=sansPrinter options(<options>);

* Your SAS procedure code here;ods tagsets.ExcelXP close;

NoteOnly the PRINT, REPORT, and TABULATE procedures

support ODS style overrides

OPTIONS- TITLES

EMBEDDED_FOOTNOTES default value: ‘No’EMBEDDED_TITLES values: ‘Yes’ ,‘No’

By default, the titles and footnotes of your output will not be displayed on the Excel worksheet. To display them, turn on the EMBEDDED_FOOTNOTES, EMBEDDED_TITLES options.

OPTIONS- PRINT HEADERS

PRINT_HEADER value: character stringPRINT_FOOTER

PRINT_FOOTER=“&C&A&RPage &P of &N”;

Sheetname Page 1 of 12

Values can be ‘None’ ‘All’ or a range

ODS tagsets.ExcelXP FILE="C:\Documents and Settings\Barbie\Desktop\TEMPLATE MACRO\AutofilterEx.xls" STYLE=XLsansprinter OPTIONS(autofilter="All" absolute_column_width='10');

PROC PRINT DATA=sasuser.autofilter NOOBS LABEL; VAR surveyid fixed_mobile

sitetype org siteid pat_volume epms epms_product emr q10_emr_product q10_emr_date;

LABEL pat_volume='Patient Volume' epms_product='EPMS Product' q10_emr_product='EMR Product' q10_emr_date='EMR Date Acquired';

RUN;

ODS tagsets.ExcelXP CLOSE;

OPTIONS- AUTOFILTER

OPTIONS- BY GROUP PROCESSINGODS tagsets.ExcelXP FILE="C:\Documents and Settings\Barbie\

Desktop\TEMPLATE MACRO\AutofilterEx.xls" STYLE=XLsansprinter

OPTIONS(suppress_bylines=‘yes’ sheet_interval=‘bygroup’ sheet_label=‘ ‘ autofit_height=‘yes’;

PROC PRINT DATA=dash.pat_enc NOOBS LABEL;BY org; PAGEBY org; VAR period;VAR PC_Patients; VAR PC_Encounters; VAR BH_Patients; VAR BH_Encounters; VAR PC_and_BH_Patients;

RUN;

ODS tagsets.ExcelXP CLOSE;

FROM SAS TO WORD AND NOT A DROP OF FORMATTING

TEMPLATES

A template is a stored collection of formatting instructions that control the individual components of a report. There are over a 100 individual components or style elements that control your report.

ODS has two main types of templates: style templates and table templates.

Style templates provide output formatting for the entire SAS program while table templates are for selected procedure output within a program.

Style templates provide specifications such as: Fonts Colors Borders Margins Backgrounds Cell spacing and padding

TEMPLATE BROWSER

To explore templates, open the Template Browser by selecting VIEW →TEMPLATES from the Toolbar (Note: The Results window must be selected). The Template Browser window will be displayed.

ANATOMY OF A STYLE TEMPLATE CODE

THE MACRO

The complete macro contains two programs:The first, Custom Style Macro, contains the

style template and attribute references macros.

The second program, Custom Style Macro CALL, has the call statements for these macros.

There is a %include statement in the second program that will run the Custom Style Macro program when Custom Style Macro CALL is run.

TIME OUT

A little about macros…

Macros are programs that allow you to write dynamic code.

%MACRO macro_name (<parameters>);* Your SAS procedure code here;%MEND;%macro_name (<parameter values>);

Call Statement

It’s dynamic since you can change the values of the parameters without retyping the whole program.

CUSTOM STYLE MACRO

CUSTOM STYLE MACRO CALL

The call statement uses lots of notes throughout to make it clear which attributes you are changing.

Parameters are divided into sections, such as TITLE or COLUMN HEADER, based on what attributes they affect.

Above each parameter, there is a note that describes what the parameter controls in the output.

In order to change an attribute’s value, you simply replace the default value written in the call statement with the value you would like the attribute to have.

%CUSTOM_STYLE_TEMPLATE (/****************** NAME OF STYLE TEMPLATE ***********************/STYLENAME=Superbowl, /****************** OUTPUT SETTINGS *******************************//****************** TITLE ***************************************//*Text size for titles from TITLE statement*/TITLESIZE= 12pt, /****************** FOOTNOTE ************************************//*Text size for footers from FOOTNOTE statement*/FOOTSIZE= 10pt, /*Font weight for footers from FOOTNOTE statement*/FOOTWEIGHT= Medium, /****************** COLUMN HEADERS ******************************//*Text size for COLUMN and ROW headers in table*/HSIZE= 11pt, /*Vertical justification of COLUMN and ROW headers in table*/VHJUST= bottom, /*Background color for COLUMN headers in table*/CHBACKGROUND= palegoldenrod, /****************** ROW HEADERS *********************************//*Background color for ROW headers in table*/RHBACKGROUND= palegoldenrod, /****************** DATA CELLS ***********************************//*Justification of DATA in cells*/DATAJUST= right,/*Vertical justification of DATA in cells*/VDATAJUST= bottom,/****************** TABLE APPEARANCE ******************************//*Padding between cell border and cell contents in TABLE*/CELLPADDING= 5pt, /*Type of rules (lines) that go inside TABLE (see %frames_and_rules for a list of values)*/RULES= rows,/*Width of FRAMES (RULE width is dictated by cellspacing)*/BORDERWIDTH= 1.5pt );

QUIT;

APPLYING YOUR CUSTOM STYLE TEMPLATE

PROC FORMAT; VALUE yesno 1='Yes‘ 0='No‘ .='Missing'; VALUE $OrgType 'PC'='Primary Care‘ 'BH'='Behavioral Health'; PICTURE pctfmt (default=7) low-high='009.9%'; RUN;

ODS RTF FILE="C:\Documents and Settings\Barbie\Desktop\TEMPLATE MACRO\TemplateEx.rtf" STYLE=Superbowl STARTPAGE=yes BODYTITLE;

TITLE 'Table 3: Availability of Electronic Practice Management Systems (EPMS)'; FOOTNOTE 'Patient volumes over 18 months (Sept 2007 to March 2009)'; FOOTNOTE2 'Volume data not available for 3 sites';

PROC TABULATE DATA=sasuser.autofilter FORMAT=comma7.; CLASS sitetype epms emr; VAR pat_volume; TABLE sitetype=' ' all='All Sites'*{style={font_weight=bold}},epms*(n

rowpctn*F=pctfmt7. pat_volume='Volume') all='Total'*(n rowpctn*F=pctfmt7.) / misstext='0' BOX={LABEL="Organization Type"}; KEYLABEL n='N' sum=' ' rowpctn='%'; FORMAT sitetype $orgtype. epms emr yesno.;

RUN;

ODS RTF CLOSE;

NOTE

Will not affect graphs! To customize your graphs you must use

GOPTIONS SAS 9.2 now has ways you can make “graph

templates”… Future paper? ;) Graphs that output to Word will output as

pictures- you will not be able to edit them!

WHERE DO I GET THIS MAGICAL MACRO?

The code is attached to the end of my paper It is also available on my new website

www.bharlan.weebly.com It will be placed in a public folder on the L

drive