Customizing the SAS Environment

Introduction to Customizing the SAS Environment

In this section, you will learn how to make the following types of customizations in SAS:

those that remain in effect for the current session only
those that remain in effect from session to session
those that you can apply to the SAS windowing environment, which is the default SAS environment

To use this section, you should be familiar with the SAS windowing environment. For more information about the SAS windowing environment, see Using the SAS Windowing Environment.

Operating Environment Differences

Even though SAS has a different appearance for each operating environment, most of the actions that are available from the menus are the same.

One of the biggest differences between operating environments is the way that you select menu items. If your workstation is not equipped with a mouse, then here are the keyboard equivalents to mouse actions:

Mouse action	Keyboard equivalent
double-click the item	type an s or an x in the space next to the item, then press the ENTER or RETURN key
right-click the item	type ? in the space next to the item, then press the ENTER or RETURN key

Examples in this documentation show SAS windows as they appear in the Microsoft Windows environment. For the most part, corresponding windows in other operating environments will yield similar results. If you do not see the drop-down menus in your operating environment, then enter the global command PMENU at a command prompt.

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