Date:         Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:50:46 -0800
Reply-To:     "Stanley A. Gorodenski" <stanlep@EXTREMEZONE.COM>
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From:         "Stanley A. Gorodenski" <stanlep@EXTREMEZONE.COM>
Subject:      Writing out Page Break and other Formating Characters
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Greetings. Its been awhile since I've conversed on this list. I have
recently started using my 'owned' home version of SPSS more. In the past
I have batted for SPSS, but after using it (version 10) I can see its
severe limitations more. How could I have defended it so vigorously in
the past? It would be nice to use SAS for my own personal uses, but it
is too expensive when there is no profit involved and I have to pay for
it instead of an employer. The Learning Edition is unacceptable because
it is limited by the number of observations it can process, but even if
a person could live with this there is the uncertainty of whether SAS
Institute will continue with the learning edition concept after
December, 2006.

I have a question, but it is in the category of being rhetorical, or
just to know, since I am not now using SAS. Does a user of SAS have the
capability of writing out characters, or a set of characters, to an
ascii file that would be interpreted as formatting characters (such as
page breaks, paragraph centering, etc.) in Microsoft WORD 97 (or the
latest version)?
Stan