Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:18:38 -0400
Reply-To: "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
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From: "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>
Subject: Re: Taylored reporting - SAS/MS-Word interplay?
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This sounds like a job for DDE.
I suggest that you look at "Fancy MS Word Reports Made Easy: Harnessing the
Power of Dynamic Data Exchange" by Viergever and Vyverman.
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/016-28.pdf
On Wed, 24 May 2006 17:58:41 +0200, Dietrich Alte <alte@UNI-GREIFSWALD.DE>
wrote:
>Dear SAS-Lers,
>
>in a medical research project we want to sent letters ("reports") to
>~250 GPs and ask them about ~1800 patients and validate data that these
>patients as probands in our study have given.
>We want to validate 14 different events (heart operation, cancer etc.)
>and have a question for every type of event (each nicely formatted in
>MS-Word DOC and saved to disk as such). For each subject we want to
>print only the relevant questions (we have 0/1 flag variables var1-var14
>that define which question must be asked).
>
>Can I use SAS to collect the relevant questions and fit them together
>and output them as DOC or PDF?
>It seems to work somehow in MS-Access, but I'd prefer a SAS solution as
>it gives me more freedom in preprocessing.
>
>--> My problem is: can I include any DOCs into SAS ODS or is there any
>other alternative? (dde?)
>
>(System: XPprof, SAS 9.1.3 sp3)
>
>Dietrich
>
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