Using the Output Delivery System
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Overview
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Examples
Creating HTML Output with ODS Selecting ODS Tables for Display Excluding ODS Tables from Display Creating an Output Data Set from an ODS Table Creating an Output Data Set: Subsetting the Data RUN-Group Processing ODS Output Data Sets and Using PROC TEMPLATE to Customize Output HTML Output with Hyperlinks between Tables HTML Output with Graphics and Hyperlinks Correlation and Covariance Matrices
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HTML Output in the SAS Windowing Environment
In SAS 9.3, the default destination in the SAS windowing environment is HTML and ODS Graphics is enabled by default.1 These new defaults have several advantages. Graphs are integrated with tables, and all output is displayed in the same HTML file. The HTML destination uses a new style, HTMLBLUE, which is an all-color style, that is designed to integrate tables and modern statistical graphics.
You can view and modify the default settings by selecting Tools 
Options Preferences from the menu at the top of the main SAS window. Then click the Results tab. You can remember this sequence using the mnemonic TOPR (pronounced "topper"). See Figure 20.1.
The default settings are as follows:
HTML output is created when Create HTML is selected, and all output is viewed in the Results Viewer window.
ODS Graphics is enabled when Use ODS Graphics is selected.
The default style, HTMLBLUE, is selected from the Style list.
Results are viewed in an internal SAS browser when Internal browser is selected.
Graph image files are saved in the Work folder (not in your current folder) when Use WORK folder is selected.
LISTING output is not created when the Create listing box is cleared.
In many cases, graphs are an integral part of a data analysis. However, when you run large computational programs (such as when you use procedures with many BY groups), you might not want to create graphs. In those cases, you should disable ODS Graphics, which will improve the performance of your program. You can disable and re-enable ODS Graphics in your SAS programs with the ODS GRAPHICS OFF and ODS GRAPHICS ON statements. You can also change the ODS Graphics default in the Results tab.
In the SAS windowing environment, the current folder is displayed in the status line at the bottom of the main SAS window. When Use WORK folder is cleared, graph image files are saved in the current folder and are available after your SAS session ends. They can accumulate with time and take up a great deal of space. When Use WORK folder is selected, graph image files are stored in the Work folder and are not available after your SAS session ends.