Paula Sims <me@here.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.1b171e213e79f3e89896b2@news.det.sbcglobal.net>... > Hello all, > I am hoping you can help me with the following. > > I am outputting reports (mostly using PROC TABULATE but some with PROC > REPORTS and PROC PRINT) and I would like the first line (report > description) centered, some descriptive information left aligned, and > the output centered again. So it would look like the following (with the > department information similarly aligned): > > REPORT OF CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS 2002 - CURRENT > > Department: 12345 - Printing > Location: Atlanta, GA > Region: 6 > > PROC TABULATE/REPORT/PRINT output here. > > > I wouldn't mind it if the Department information were centered but at > long as it's not "spread out". > > Thank you for all your help > > > Paula Sims > paulasims2004@hotmail.com

Keep the option "center" in effect and for those titles you want left-aligned then force them to the left by making the title overlong something like this:

title4 "The text of title 4" "%sysfunc(repeat(%str( ),199))" ;

I wrote two little macros named %latitle and %lafootnote to do this for people who forget this trick.

%macro latitle(num,text); title&num &text "%sysfunc(repeat(%str( ),199))" ; %mend;

%macro lafootnote(num,text); footnote&num &text "%sysfunc(repeat(%str( ),199))" ; %mend;