Using Wingdings in PROC REPORT

The idea for this post came from the book "PROC REPORT by Example" - Techniques for Building Professional Reports Using SAS by Lisa Fine.

To get a listing of Wingdings (or other available fonts), click on Windows | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map. In the below case, Wingdings was chosen as the font and the bolded down arrow is associated with hex code EA.

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An example using the up (E9) and down (EA) wingding fonts with proc report can be seen below.

proc format ;
  value arrow
    low -< 14 = "ea"x
    14 - high = "e9"x ;

  value color 
    low -< 14 = red
    14 - high = green ;
run ;

ods listing close ;
ods html file = "c:\temp\wingdings.html" ;
  proc report data = sashelp.class( obs = 5 ) nowd ;
    column name age direction ;
    define name / display ;
    define age  / analysis  ;
    define direction /  
       computed 
       format = arrow. 
       style( column ) = [ font_face = wingdings just = c ] ;

    compute direction ;
      direction = age.sum ;
      call define( "direction", "style", "style = [ foreground = color. ]" ) ;
    endcomp ;
  run ;
ods html close ;
ods listing ;