In reply to Allen Ziegenfus.

Allen, you're correct that the SAS Report format is limited in some of its formatting capabilities. Actually, when I wrote this post back in 2012, SAS Report was almost indistinguishable from HTML in features, and it was much more malleable and "transportable" across the various SAS client apps.

SAS Report is still the default format for EG and for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. But we also have a new report format that is richer and compatible with SAS Visual Analytics (though there is not an ODS tagset for it yet, as far as I know). ODS has also added more target destinations such as ODS HTML5, ODS EPUB, ODS POWERPOINT, and (experimentally for now) ODS EXCEL. These new destinations provide a way for you to create content directly to another application's native format without going through a different client app, if you want.