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Making SAS Output Pretty – Creating Customized Documents for your Clients
Elaine Dempsey, Rho Inc.

SAS has long been valued for its strength in statistical computing. Indeed, statistical analysis is the reason for the creation of SAS 25 years ago. Today, in the clinical research industy, SAS is almost always used in conjunction with a separate word processing package in order to present output in a richly formatted manner that will be pleasing to the eye of the client. However, SAS itself can produce the same aesthetically pleasing output by utilizing the Data Step Graphics Interface (DSGI), whi ch is a part of SAS/GRAPH. The examples presented in this paper are based on SAS Version 6.12 under Windows 98, but the principles presented apply to all operating systems. The paper addresses the use of DSGI in both base SAS and AF/SCL and the audience should be comfortable with the basics of both of these products.