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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: Want to reduce the size of a report
From:       "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam () HOWLES ! COM>
Date:       2004-12-31 21:16:58
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Details (specifically, the exact HTML code, and the browser in use) matter.
I presume that you are generating a table in HTML. Most browsers will wrap
text within a cell to make a table narrower in order to avoid horizontal
scrolling. I would wonder why that's not happening.

Having said that, it sounds like a user education problem. Excel is a
better tool than any current web browser for viewing tables. If your old
report is correct, stick with it and teach the user how to hide columns in
Excel.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:13:11 -0800, David Fickbohm <DavidF@HOMEGAIN.COM>
wrote:

>People,
>I am working in a windows PC environment with SAS 8.0.
>
>I inherited a report that has two columns of text. The second is about 100
>characters long.  This is followed by a column, containing one or two
>numeric characters, for each day of the current month, then a MTD total,
>then a total from the previous month.  The report consists of 38 rows.  The
>report currently is produced as an excel spreadsheet.
>
>The user does not do any further calculations.  She says she does need to
>see all columns.
>
>I changed the report to HTML which looked better but the user thought it
was
>wider and took longer to scroll across.
>
>I would be interested in thoughts on how to improve the report.
>
>Thanks
>Dave
>Dave Fickbohm
>Data Mining Analyst
>Homegain+
>2450 45th St.
>Emeryville, CA, 94608
>Phone 510 655 0800 ext 4151

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