I asked for this capability in PROC REPORT a while back; apparently there's not enough perceived demand to warrant the programming effort. If you want it, send mail to suggest@sas.com.

-- JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com Manager, Technical Development METRICS Department, First Health West Sacramento, California USA

>>> Kevin Auslander <kauslander@TERRECRS.COM> 11/19/2002 1:33 PM >>> I find that I frequently need to set the width of each character variable manually when using proc report. I usually set it to a value that is equal to max(the longest word in the label, the length of the longest data value). Setting the width for each variable becomes very tedious when I have to create several reports with many variables each. I read in the help files that proc report will automatically set the column width to accommodate the format of the variable. So what I need is a macro that will set the format of each variable to max(the longest word in the label, the length of the longest data value). Does anyone out there have a macro that does this? Or does anyone have a different solution to the problem. TIA

Kevin