ODS TAGSETS.RTF does not honor the STARTPAGE=NOW option in some situations. A program that successfully used the STARTPAGE=NOW option in SAS® 9.2 to create two pages of output might create only one page of output in SAS® 9.3. This is most likely to occur if you are writing the output to the ODS TAGSETS.RTF destination and the STARTPAGE=NOW option is used in an ODS TEXT= statement to generate a page break before any procedure output.

To circumvent the problem, create the page break by producing procedure output with one observation and concealing the output. Please see the sample code on the Full Code tab for an illustration.

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The sample code below illustrates a circumvention for this problem by creating the desired page break with procedure output for a single observation in the data set. Style attributes are applied to the table to conceal it.

options nodate nonumber;
ods tagsets.rtf file="c:\tables93.doc" ;
ods escapechar="^";
title " ";

ods text="^{style [font_size=24pt] Analyzed using SAS &sysver}";
ods text="^{style [font_size=24pt] Operating System: &SYSSCP (&SYSSCPL)}";
ods text="^{style [font_size=24pt] Date: &sysdate}";

/* Workaround in SAS 9.3 */
proc report data=sashelp.class(obs=1) nowd noheader
     style(report)={rules=none frame=void}
     style(column)={foreground=white};
run;

/* ods tagsets.rtf startpage=now; */

title j=l "Table 1.";
title2 " ";

proc report data=sashelp.shoes spanrows nowd split="\" 
     style (header)={textalign=center verticalalign=center 
                     borderbottomstyle=double borderbottomwidth=0.75};
   column ("Title Page" returns,n);
   define returns / display order=data center "" style(column)=[width=26% verticalalign=center];
   define n / center "" style(column)=[width=13% verticalalign=center];
run;

ods text="^S={fontsize=12pt fontweight=light} ^n Note: This should be the second page";

ods tagsets.rtf close;

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