The FORMS Procedure

Overview

The FORMS procedure produces labels for envelopes, mailing labels, external tape labels, file cards, and any other printer forms that have a regular pattern.

For each observation in the input SAS data set, PROC FORMS prints data in a rectangular block called a form unit. For example, a mailing label is a form unit.

Simple Mailing List Produced with PROC FORMS illustrates a simple mailing list produced with PROC FORMS. The statements that produce the output follow. The OBS= data set option limits to six the number of observations that PROC FORMS processes.

options pagesize=60 linesize=64 nodate 
        pageno=1;

filename labels 'external-file';

proc forms data=list(obs=6) file=labels 
           align=0;
   line 1 name;
   line 2 street;
   line 3 city state zip;
run;

Simple Mailing List Produced with PROC FORMS

Gabrielli, Theresa 24 Ridgetop Rd. Westboro MA 01581 Clayton, Aria 314 Bridge St. Hanover NH 03755 Dix, Martin L. 4 Shepherd St. Norwich VT 05055 Slater, Emily C. 2009 Cherry St. York PA 17407 Ericson, Jane 211 Clancey Court Chapel Hill NC 27514 An, Ing 95 Willow Dr. Charlotte NC 28211

Customized Mailing List Produced with PROC FORMS is a customized version of the same mailing list. The statements that create this list

invert the name so the first name appears first
eliminate extra spaces between the city and state
place three form units in each row
make three copies of each form
use only observations from the states in New England.

For an explanation of the program that produces these labels, see Writing Multiple Copies of a Label within a Single Set of Labels .

Customized Mailing List Produced with PROC FORMS

Theresa Gabrielli Theresa Gabrielli Theresa Gabrielli 24 Ridgetop Rd. 24 Ridgetop Rd. 24 Ridgetop Rd. Westboro MA 01581 Westboro MA 01581 Westboro MA 01581 Aria Clayton Aria Clayton Aria Clayton 314 Bridge St. 314 Bridge St. 314 Bridge St. Hanover NH 03755 Hanover NH 03755 Hanover NH 03755 Martin L. Dix Martin L. Dix Martin L. Dix 4 Shepherd St. 4 Shepherd St. 4 Shepherd St. Norwich VT 05055 Norwich VT 05055 Norwich VT 05055

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