I bet that many of you reading our blog are familiar with accomplished SAS users and authors Lauren Haworth, Cynthia Zender, and Michele Burlew. Together, they form a powerful triumvirate of SAS experience. If you get a chance to pick up their book Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond or read about some of the cool features on their book's Web catalog page, I think you’ll understand why this 600-page-plus guide flies off the shelves.

The following excerpt is from SAS Press authors Lauren Haworth’s, Cynthia Zender’s, and Michele Burlew’s book Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond © 2009, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. (please note that results may vary depending on your version of SAS software)

Generating a Table of Contents with TAGSETS.RTF 

We have already seen the use of the CONTENTS= option with ODS RTF. To generate a table of contents with TAGSETS.RTF, the method is very similar. Consider the following code:

 ODS TAGSETS.RTF FILE='TOC_SUBOPTIONS.rtf'

OPTIONS(CONTENTS='yes' TOC_DATA='yes');

title 'Human Resources Reports';

 
proc means data=hr nonobs maxdec=0 mean sum;

class Department;

var AnnualSalary;

run;

 
proc print data=hr(obs=25);

run;

ODS _ALL_ CLOSE;

Although you might need to right-click farther down on the page than with traditional ODS RTF TOC
generation, after you right-click and select Update Field, you will see a table of contents generated.

You can get a lot more information about this book including a free chapter and read SAS users’ reviews here!