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The SAS system provides comprehensive online support at several different levels. All of the reference manuals are now available on line in HTML and PDF format. Point your browser to:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/sas9doc.html

Also, within your SAS session you can get help for all SAS products or you can get task-specific help for one window at a time. Click Help in the main menu to produce a drop down menu containing the following items: “Using this Window”, “SAS Help and Documentation”, “Getting Started with SAS Software”, “Learning SAS Programming”, “SAS on the Web”, and “About SAS 9”.

Getting Started with SAS Software

initiates the SAS tutorial.

SAS on the Web

gives you a direct link to SAS Institute's Home Page, to the Institute's Frequently Asked Questions, and to SAS technical support.

SAS Help and Documentation opens the “Welcome to SAS 9.1.3 Help and Documentation” screen from which you can make menu selections to read about the entire SAS system or select specific topics of interest. The left hand panel in this Help window allows you to select Contents, Index, Search or Favorites. Under Contents, you can select from: “What's New”, “Learning to use SAS”, “Using SAS Software in your Operating Environment”, “SAS Products”, or “SAS User Support Services”. With the Index tab you can enter a specific word or SAS command and obtain help on that one command.