SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Specifying Titles and Footnotes

Overview

Now you've learned how to structure your PRINT procedure output. However, you might also want to make your reports easy to interpret by

• adding titles and footnotes
• replacing variable names with descriptive labels
• formatting variable values.

Although this chapter focuses on PROC PRINT, you can apply these enhancements to most SAS procedure output.

TITLE and FOOTNOTE Statements

To make your report more meaningful and self-explanatory, you can associate up to 10 titles with procedure output by using TITLE statements before the PROC step. Likewise, you can specify up to 10 footnotes by using FOOTNOTE statements before the PROC step.

Because TITLE and FOOTNOTE statements are global ...