Date:         Fri, 6 Feb 2004 22:24:55 -0500
Reply-To:     Howard Schreier <Howard_Schreier@ITA.DOC.GOV>
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From:         Howard Schreier <Howard_Schreier@ITA.DOC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Bolding one observation every time it appears
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See "PROC REPORT: Doin’ It in Style!" by Ray Pass and Sandy McNeill

   http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/015-28.pdf

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:02:01 -0500, Pat Moore <pat.moore@UAA.ALASKA.EDU>
wrote:

>Is there any way to bold one observation whenever it appears in a report?
>I'm using proc report, and one of the lines needs to be bolded every time
>that observation appears. The data look like this (thanks, Art Tabachneck
>and Phil Crane):
>
>
>id     _NAME_    AY99    r99     ay00    r00
>123    Measure1  12345    2      67890    1
>456    Measure1  98765    1      54321    2
>123    Measure2  78901    1      67895    2
>456    Measure2  66554    2      99887    1
>
>I read it with this:
>
>proc report data=report9802 nowd;
> column id _name_
> ('AY 1998-99' ay99 r99)
> ('AY 1999-00' ay00 r00)
> define id / group ' ';
>        define measure / group noprint;
> define ay99 / 'Value' f=comma8.;
> define ay00 / 'Value' f=comma8.;
> define r99 / 'Rank';
> define r00 / 'Rank';
> break after _name_ / page;
> compute before _page_ / style= {just=l font_weight=bold};
>  line 'Measure: ' _name_ $itemf.;
> endcomp;
>run;
>
>Output looks like this:
>Measure: Measure1
>id      AY99    r99      ay00    r00
>123    12,345    2      67,890    1 *I want this line boldfaced;
>456    98,765    1      54,321    2
>123    78,901    1      67,895    2 *I want this line boldfaced;
>456    66,554    2      99,887    1
>
>I'd do it manually, but the report is 500 pages long.
>
>TIA,
>
>Pat Moore