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Excel commands via DDE

PaigeMiller — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:35:16 GMT

In the documentation for using DDE to write to Excel, there are examples of Excel commands embedded in SAS code, for example, as shown here

PUT '[select("r1c1:r20c3")]';

PUT '[sort(1,"R1C1",1)]';

PUT '[save.as("dde3.xls")]';

PUT '[quit()]';

Where can I find a complete list of these Excel commands?

Re: Excel commands via DDE

Vince28_Statcan — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:08:16 GMT

https://communities.sas.com/thread/49210

See my last post or follow the following link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/128185/en-us

Vincent

Re: Excel commands via DDE

art297 — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:11:49 GMT

Paige: two good sources that I'm aware of are:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms648711%28VS.85%29.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/128185

Re: Excel commands via DDE

Reeza — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:24:53 GMT

I think the commands are all those in the link Art provided, but those don't really encompass all the options anymore because some new ones are available with the new versions of Office...

Re: Excel commands via DDE

Peter_C — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:11:22 GMT

if you can find it you'll discover real documentation of the functions excel accepts through DDE in

excel 4 function reference

(iirc)

Re: Excel commands via DDE

Andre — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:00:02 GMT

Paige,

The last reference about DDE and excel is from Guam and Hadden at Nesug2013

"EXCELing in DDE: Unlock Useful Tools for Processing Excel® "

http://www.lexjansen.com/nesug/nesug13/151_Final_Paper.pdf

Inside you have a link to a complete list zip file

and also some technics linked to office14

HTH

Andre

Re: Excel commands via DDE

art297 — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:28:41 GMT

This link might work better: http://www.lexjansen.com/nesug/nesug13/151_Final_Paper.pdf

Art