What's New This third edition of The Little SAs Book: A Primer includes features added since sas 7--and there are a lot of them. When we wrote the second edition, the basic structure of the Output Delivery System(ODS) was in place, but few of its features were. Since then, flesh has been added to the bones and Ods now has a multitude of destinations and options. So, we have added a new chapter devoted entirely to Ods Exporting data is another greatly expanded topic. In previous editions we had a few scattered sections describing how to get data out of SAs for use in other applications, but the number of ways and number of types of files you can create has grown to the point that we felt a need to give a chapter all their own Other new topics are sprinkled throughout the book. For the first time we have included PROC REPORT. In addition, we ve expanded our coverage of the SAS Explorer window, the IMPORT and EXPORT Wizards, Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE), direct-referencing of AS data sets, and PROC TABULATE Weve added more system options, and a section on advanced input with the @character'column pointer and the colon modifier Most of the features in this edition are available with SAS 8.2 a few are new with sas 9 or SAS 9. 1. We have tried to point out whenever a feature is new. So unless otherwise noted, you can assume that everything in this book is available in SAS 8.2 Here, listed by section, are the new topics The Output Delivery System Section Feature Basic concepts for understanding ODS ODS TRACE and ODS SELECT statements allow you to choose which parts of ODS OUTPUT statement allows you to save results from SAS procedures as SAs 5.4-5.6 HTML, RTE, and PRINTER output can be created using ODS statements Titles and footnotes can be customized using the COlor=, BCOLOR=, HEIGHT- JUSTIFY=, FONT=, BOLD, and ITALIC options. 5.8-5.10 STYLE= option in PROC PRINT, PROC REPORT, and PROC TABULATE allows yo to control almost any aspect of the appearance of your output 5.11 Traffic-lighting draws attention to important values in reports by determining the 5.12 Table of selected style attributes shows some of the most popular features that you can controlWhat’s New This third edition of The Little SAS Book: A Primer includes features added since SAS 7—and there are a lot of them. When we wrote the second edition, the basic structure of the Output Delivery System (ODS) was in place, but few of its features were. Since then, flesh has been added to the bones and ODS now has a multitude of destinations and options. So, we have added a new chapter devoted entirely to ODS. Exporting data is another greatly expanded topic. In previous editions we had a few scattered sections describing how to get data out of SAS for use in other applications, but the number of ways and number of types of files you can create has grown to the point that we felt a need to give these topics a chapter all their own. Other new topics are sprinkled throughout the book. For the first time we have included PROC REPORT. In addition, we’ve expanded our coverage of the SAS Explorer window, the IMPORT and EXPORT Wizards, Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), direct-referencing of SAS data sets, and PROC TABULATE. We’ve added more system options, and a section on advanced input with the @’character’ column pointer and the colon modifier. Most of the features in this edition are available with SAS 8.2; a few are new with SAS 9 or SAS 9.1. We have tried to point out whenever a feature is new. So unless otherwise noted, you can assume that everything in this book is available in SAS 8.2. Here, listed by section, are the new topics: The Output Delivery System Section Feature 5.1 Basic concepts for understanding ODS. 5.2 ODS TRACE and ODS SELECT statements allow you to choose which parts of output will be printed. 5.3 ODS OUTPUT statement allows you to save results from SAS procedures as SAS data sets. 5.4-5.6 HTML, RTF, and PRINTER output can be created using ODS statements. 5.7 Titles and footnotes can be customized using the COLOR=, BCOLOR=, HEIGHT=, JUSTIFY=, FONT=, BOLD, and ITALIC options. 5.8-5.10 STYLE= option in PROC PRINT, PROC REPORT, and PROC TABULATE allows you to control almost any aspect of the appearance of your output. 5.11 Traffic-lighting draws attention to important values in reports by determining the style of a cell based on its value. 5.12 Table of selected style attributes shows some of the most popular features that you can control