topic Background color change in excelxp in ODS and Base Reporting

Background color change in excelxp

Smijoss — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:55:56 GMT

Hi,

I have a question on background coloring in the output created from ODS excelxp. When i run the program i notice that the background is always white for the entire excel sheet.

Does this have any performance issue - would it help if I could make all cells transparent ?

The "Collecting" Status in SAS eg take a while to load the output, trying to see if i can reduce the style and load excel quicker.

I tried the following code, but only the data cell have a transparent background, all the cells outside the box still have white background. Please see the attachmen.

Proc template

define style styles.test;

parent=styles.minimal;

style body from body /

background=transparent;

style table from table /

cellspacing=0

borderwidth=0;

end;

Run;

Re: Background color change in excelxp

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:06:37 GMT

Hi, I am not sure, exactly, what you are trying to do. If you want to see the "grid" lines in the Excel sheet, then you have to do more than change the style. Please refer to this Tech Support note (46949 - You cannot use a style template with the ExcelXP tagset to add grid lines to the body of a worksheet) for the complete code that you have to implement. If you need help getting the code to work on your server and EG configuration, then the best thing to do would be to work with Tech Support.

The ExcelXP output is XML which corresponds to the Microsoft specification, I doubt that the background color is making EG take time to load the output. But again Tech Support can work with you on this.

cynthia

Re: Background color change in excelxp

Smijoss — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:13:37 GMT

Thanks Cynthia, it worked