BASUG Quarterly Meeting Announcement
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Want ultimate control of your ODS output? Come and learn how from a SAS Institute ODS
author! With three presentations at
the March 2010 BASUG Quarterly Meeting, Cynthia Zender, ODS expert and
developer, will skillfully and gently demystify ODS. You will learn about Templates, Styles, and
Tagsets, and how they work with ODS in general. See the abstracts for further details. Immediately following
the meeting, we will provide an informal light buffet lunch for all meeting
attendees. We hope you can stay for
this opportunity to network and socialize with your fellow SAS users. Please note our venue
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Topic: |
Ultimate Control With ODS |
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When: |
Wednesday, March 10,
2010 8:15 AM – Noon |
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Where: |
Microsoft
New England Research & Development Center (857) 453-6000 |
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Directions: |
Please
visit: http://www.basug.org/directionsNERD.html
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How: |
Individual,
On-Line Registration Required. No e-mail please. |
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Please visit: http://www.basug.org/register.php3,
and register by Monday, March 8th. (We have to provide a list of attendees to our host PRIOR
to the meeting day.) If you have not
registered on-line by March 8th, you will need to bring a picture ID to show
at the door.) |
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Contact: |
If you
have questions about the meeting please contact: Sara
Hickson (sara.hickson@yahoo.com)
or |
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Agenda |
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8:15-8:45 |
Sign-in and
refreshments |
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8:45-9:00 |
Announcements |
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9:00-9:50 |
Markup 101 |
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9:50-10:05 |
Break |
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10:05-10:55 |
Tiptoe Through
the Templates |
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10:55-11:10 |
Break |
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11:10-12:00 |
Under the Hood:
How to Use the ExcelXP Tagset |
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12:00-1:00 |
Informal buffet
lunch (provided by BASUG) |
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Note: Times are approximate.
Please re-visit the BASUG website (www.basug.org) for updated information.
Bio and
Abstracts
Cynthia
Zender has been with SAS since 1996 as an instructor and course developer. She currently serves as the Curriculum
Manager for Report Writing and Output Delivery System education. She has over 25 years of experience
programming and reporting with SAS in a number of different industries such as
Education, Public Utility, and Telecom.
Cynthia is a frequent speaker at SAS Global Forum and at regional SAS
user groups. She recently finished two
graph related courses and is the co-author of the recently published SAS Press
book, Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond (co-authored with
Lauren Haworth and Michele Burlew).
Markup 101
Do you
want to know what this "Markup" buzz is all about? Does it surprise you to know that the concept
of "marking up" text for computers has been around since 1969? So what's all the excitement about? And what does SAS have to do with it?
Tiptoe Through the Templates
Are you
confused about the difference between style templates, table templates, tagset
templates, and graph templates? Do you
wonder how they're all used with ODS?
This presentation provides an overview of all the different ODS template
types and how they're used with the Output Delivery System. This presentation will provide an overview
and several concrete examples for each template type.
Under the Hood: How to Use the
ExcelXP Tagset
This
presentation provides a brief overview of the TAGSETS.EXCELXP destination. Then, concrete examples of using the ODS
destination, TAGSETS.EXCELXP, will be demonstrated. Programs shown will include: using the
ExcelXP suboption list; getting the ExcelXP internal help file to display in
the SAS log; creating and naming multiple worksheet files; controlling when a
new sheet starts; setting column width defaults; using an INI file to set
defaults such as orientation or zoom level; sending Excel formats from SAS so
that leading zeroes or decimal places are shown when the file opens in
Excel. In addition, some enhancements
for the output will be demonstrated, such as performing traffic-lighting,
setting column widths, supplying Excel header and footer information, and
specifying Excel zoom level. A link to
the program code will be given out to attendees.
BASUG
Membership
Keep your
BASUG Membership up-to-date! Print out a
membership form from our website, and bring it with you to the meeting, along
with your check. (Please note that we
discontinued Corporate Memberships in 2005.)
We provide only Individual Membership at $30 annually, on a calendar
year basis. For more information on our
membership policy, or to print out a form visit: http://www.basug.org/basugj.shtml
Directions
to Microsoft New England Research and
NOTE LOCATION
Please
visit: http://www.basug.org/directionsNERD.html
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