The RTF destination does not measure vertically. It sends table instructions to Microsoft Word but leaves much of the pagination up to the word processor. This means that when PROC REPORT uses a GROUP or ORDER variable and the values span more than one page, the value is not repeated at the top of the second and subsequent pages. See SAS Note 7887 for a workaround using the ODS RTF destination.

The new RTF tagset available in SAS 9.2, in conjunction with the new SPANROWS option on the PROC REPORT statement, provides a way to repeat the value of a GROUP or ORDER variable if that variable's value spans more than one page.

The SPANROWS option is described here.

The UNIFORM option for the RTF tagset is described here.

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/* Close the Output window. */
ods listing close;

/* Display the RTF output in landscape orientation, */
/* and remove the date and page number.  */
options orientation=landscape nodate nonumber;

/* Open the RTF tagset destination. */
ods tagsets.rtf file="tagsets.rtf" UNIFORM; 
                                     
proc report nowd data=sashelp.shoes SPANROWS;
  title;
  col region product sales;
  define region / order;
run;

ods tagsets.rtf close;

/* Turn the Output window back on and restore the options previously turned off. */
ods listing;
options orientation=portrait date number;

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