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As I mentioned when creating a user-defined format for Information Maps in a prior post custom or user-defined formats can be created and stored quickly in the default format catalog for all Business Intelligence products within "Lev1\SASApp\SASEnvironment\SASFormats". This is useful for custom sorting, reclassifying or grouping data as well as