Problem Note 10379: Extraneous characters appear in RTF header
When an RTF file is created with ODS RTF in SAS 9.1 extraneous RTF
control characters may appear in the first column header in the RTF
file if any of the following conditions exist:
The MS Word SHOW/HIDE button is selected/highlighted.
Under Tools..Options..View, Hidden Text is checked.
Under Format..Reveal Formatting..Show all formatting marks
in the lower right corner is checked.
To eliminate them, un-check the SHOW/HIDE button (reverse P), un-check
the "Hidden Text" box under the Tools..Options..View menu, or un-check
the "Show all formatting marks" under the Format..Reveal Formatting
menu.
Starting in 9.1.3 SP2, the following option on the ODS RTF statement
will prevent this table of contents from being created altogether:
NOTOC_DATA
The latest Service Pack for SAS 9.1.3 is available here:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_sbcs_prod_list.html#010379
For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
fix should be downloaded from:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_dbcs_prod_list.html#010379
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> ODS (Output Delivery System)
|
| Date Modified: | 2006-03-30 11:19:56 |
| Date Created: | 2003-07-08 13:54:22 |
