With any software program, there are always new tips and tricks to learn, and nobody can know them all. Sometimes I even pick up tips or techniques from my students while they’re learning broader programming tips from me.

Like fine wine, instructors only get better with age. Every customer interaction we encounter, every software upgrade that happens, every SAS training course we get sent on, all add to the length and breadth of our SAS teaching knowledge.

But the absolute best learning experience hands down has got to be the SAS classroom setting. Customers come up with real life problems, and ask probing and insightful questions. It makes us instructors pull deep down into the recesses of our minds and see how far we can extend the use of SAS in creative ways.

Here’s an Enterprise Guide tip I recently learned from a student.

Open up the advanced expression builder to write an expression for a computed column. Keep CTRL key depressed while you use the scroll button on the mouse. Scroll up to increase font size, scroll down to reduce font size.

What tips do you know that you think might be new to me or those in my class? Send them along or comment here, and I’ll spread them around!