PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy - A Guide for SAS Users - Excerpt

Sep 11, 2026

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PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy - a guide for SAS users focused on constructing, styling, and managing ODS table templates through PROC TEMPLATE. The excerpt outlines template structure and template types, then explains how predefined and new styles are created, overridden, and applied in reports. It also covers creating and customizing table templates, including headers, footers, computed column values, attributes, traffic-light formatting, and integration with DATA _NULL_. Finally, it introduces template management via ODS paths and PROC TEMPLATE statements such as DELETE, LINK, and LIST.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPresentations

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Pages43

Reading Time15 min

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Chapter 1: Introduction

The Template Structure

Types of Templates

Data-Dependent Templates

Data-Independent Templates

Chapter 2: Using Styles in Your Reports

Using Pre-Defined Styles

Defining a New Style

Cascading Style Sheets and the SAS Enterprise Guide Style Manager

PROC TEMPLATE Styles

Style Attribute References

Chapter 3: Creating and Customizing Table Templates

Defining a Table

Defining Headers and Footers

Defining Columns

Using Computed Column Values As Column Data

Table Attributes

Style Overrides and Traffic Lighting

Chapter 4: Template Management

Template Stores and the ODS Path

PROC TEMPLATE Statements

The DELETE Statement

The LINK Statement

The LIST Statement

PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy A Guide for SAS ® Users Kevin D. Smith SAS® Press From PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy. Full book available for purchase here. Contents About This Book ...................................................................................... vii About The Author ................................................................................... xiii Acknowledgments ....................................................................................xv Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................. 1 The Template Structure ................................................................................................................. 2 Types of Templates ........................................................................................................................ 5 Data-Dependent Templates .................................................................................................. 5 Data-Independent Templates ............................................................................................... 9 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 2: Using Styles in Your Reports ................................................. 13 Using Pre-Defined Styles ............................................................................................................ 14 Where Are These Styles Coming from? ............................................................................. 15 Defining a New Style .................................................................................................................... 19 Cascading Style Sheets and the SAS Enterprise Guide Style Manager .........................20 PROC TEMPLATE Styles ..................................................................................................... 28 Style Attribute References .................................................................................................. 44 Style Overrides and Conditional Formatting .............................................................................46 Dynamic Style Attribute Values........................................................................................... 51 Reporting Procedure Styles ........................................................................................................ 56 PROC PRINT Styles .............................................................................................................. 57 PROC REPORT Styles .......................................................................................................... 62 PROC TABULATE Styles...................................................................................................... 68 Inline Formatting .......................................................................................................................... 79 Putting It All Together .................................................................................................................. 81 Chapter 3: Creating and Customizing Table Templates ............................ 95 Defining a Table............................................................................................................................ 96 Defining Headers and Footers .................................................................................................. 103 Defining Columns ....................................................................................................................... 111 Using Computed Column Values As Column Data................................................................. 118 Table Attributes .......................................................................................................................... 121 Style Overrides and Traffi

FAQs

What template types does the guide introduce in the introduction?

The introduction distinguishes data-dependent templates from data-independent templates, explaining how each template type behaves in SAS.

How do users apply styles in SAS reports using PROC TEMPLATE?

The guide shows how predefined styles are used, how to define new styles, and how style attributes can be referenced, overridden, and conditionally formatted for reporting procedures.

What topics are covered when creating and customizing table templates?

The excerpt covers defining tables, headers and footers, columns, computed column values, template attributes, and formatting options such as style overrides and traffic-light effects.

Sep 11, 2026

Uploaded by Miles