Introduction

Welcome to Edition 8 of Making SAS Accessible to Everyone. After learning how to create and interpret data reports in Edition 7, we now focus on how to automate and export those reports using SAS’s Output Delivery System (ODS).

ODS allows you to generate and share reports in a variety of professional formats, such as PDF, Excel, RTF (Word), and HTML. These features are critical for delivering insights to collaborators, stakeholders, or clients, particularly those who do not work directly in SAS.

1. Understanding ODS Basics

ODS gives you precise control over the format, layout, and destination of SAS output.

Basic Structure:

ODS  FILE="filepath"