Introduction

Typographical Conventions

Following is a description of the typographical conventions used in this document:

bold: Used for new terms and book titles, or to indicate items in windows or on menus.
monospace: Used to indicate items that the user types into the system.

Performing the tasks in this document occasionally requires you to make a series of window and menu selections. Where appropriate, these series are indicated with a selection path. For example,

Tasks

Graphics

Maps

In this case, you would select Tasks from the current window, then select Graphics from the resulting pull-down menu, and then select Maps from the resulting cascading menu.

In this document the word task refers to anything you can do with SAS/ASSIST that involves manipulating, reporting, analyzing, and presenting data. SAS/ASSIST tasks can be saved and recalled. These tasks are distinguished from other things you can do with SAS/ASSIST software, such as setup actions and utility actions. Thus, creating a listing report is a SAS/ASSIST task, but generating the graphics test pattern is not. A task window is a SAS/ASSIST window that is the starting point for performing a task. Examples of task windows include the List a Table window and the Bar Charts window.

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