Getting Started with the SAS System Using SAS/ASSIST Software

Conventions Used in This Book

Following is a description of the typographical conventions used in this book:

bold: Used for new terms and book titles, or to indicate items in windows or on menus.
monospace: Used to indicate items that the user types into the system.

Performing the tasks in this book occasionally requires you to make a series of window and menu selections. Where appropriate, these series are indicated with a selection path. For example,

Tasks Graphics Maps

In this case, you would select Tasks from the current window, then select Graphics from the resulting pull-down menu, and then select Maps from the resulting cascading menu. See Using Menus for details about using menus.

In this book the word task refers to anything you can do with SAS/ASSIST that involves manipulating, reporting, analyzing, and presenting data. SAS/ASSIST tasks can be saved and recalled. These tasks are distinguished from other things you can do with SAS/ASSIST software, such as set-up actions and utility actions. Thus, creating a listing report is a SAS/ASSIST task, but generating the graphics test pattern is not. A task window is a SAS/ASSIST window that is the starting point for performing a task. Examples of task windows include the List a Table window and the Bar Charts window.

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