Date:         Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:06:28 +0100
Reply-To:     Bart Guijt <bart.guijt@remove.spam.protection.prive.ordina.nl>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Bart Guijt <bart.guijt@PRIVE.ORDINA.NL>
Organization: Ordina Finance Amsterdam BV
Subject:      Re: SAS Output to MS Word table

LPogoda wrote in message <19990228200328.11127.00000636@ngol08.aol.com>...
>Anyway, now that I'm here, I need to write a publication quality report in
>tabular format without human intervention.  Using a DDE link to MSWord is
>complicated (all the table creation and formatting commands have to be
issued),
>slow (writing 10 pages of output, two tables per page, about 15 rows per
table
>isn't a job, it's a career), and to top it all off, at random times the DDE
>link simply fails, and no more output can be generated without a cold boot.
>
>I'm given to understand that version 7 addresses to at least some degree
the
>generation of high quality reports, but the office I'm currently working in
is
>actively planning NOT to upgrade in the forseeable future.
>
>I'm open to suggestions.  Anyone have any?
 
Another possibility is to write HTML documents. This is as fast as writing
plain ASCII, but might take some time to get a nice document generation
process.
My suggestion is, make an example document (in Word), save it as a .html
file, look at the file using notepad. Generate a file like this, but from
SAS. If you still need a word document, let Word do the convertion from
.html to .doc, which might be faster than all DDE communication.
 
Good luck and HTH!
 
Bart Guijt
Ordina Finance Amsterdam