Introduction

Typographical Conventions

This documentation uses some special symbols and typefaces.

Field names, menu items, and other items associated with the graphical user interface are in bold; for example, a menu item is written as File $\blacktriangleright\,$ Open $\blacktriangleright\,$ Server Data Set. A field in a dialog box is written as the Anchor tick field.
Names of Windows files, folders, and paths are in bold; for example, C:\Temp\MyData.sas7bdat.
SAS librefs, data sets, and variable names are in Helvetica; for example, the age variable in the work.MyData data set.
Keywords in SAS or in the IMLPlus language are in all capitals; for example, the SUBMIT statement or the ORDER= option.

This documentation is full of examples. Each step in an example appears in bold.

This symbol and typeface indicates a step in an example.