John,

I had a couple general thoughts on this:

1) The RTF driver for ODS is (highly) experimental in version 8.0. My limited experiences with it have not been particularly good. It is scheduled for production status, and should be much improved, in 8.1.

2) In the meantime, you might consider using the HTML destination for ODS. I have been working on a somewhat similar application with good results. You have your choice of fonts and can let the browser wrap your long text rather than trying to do it yourself. HTML tags can be used for line breaks, boldface etc. You can print the document from the browser -- page breaks are not "perfect", but were better than I expected.

3) There is a DATA step interface to ODS. However, I had good success using PROC REPORT. The one gotcha I ran into is that currently a single LINE statement can put out about 400 characters max. Data cells don't seem to have this limitation.

Good luck!

Mike Rhoads Westat RhoadsM1@Westat.com