SAS PROCs produce certain output by default. Presumably, the SAS software designers set those defaults to include the information that users will be most interested in. But often those results are excessive, and we may prefer to suppress some results from the output. This can be done with the ODS EXCLUDE and ODS SELECT statements. In this video we show how to use these statements to suppress certain specific tables of results from a PROC, or to suppress all output to a given destination. Suppressing all output is a useful technique when we have a big SAS program that produces voluminous output that is not of any interest. It often takes SAS much longer to produce output (especially HTML output) than to do its statistical computations. So suppressing output is an important technique for making your program run faster.