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SAS excel macro

varun45 — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:04:10 GMT

Is there a macro to find the last refreshed time of the excel sheet?

Re: SAS excel macro

RW9 — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:07:02 GMT

?? SAS Macros are not Excel macros. So no, there is no SAS Macro to find something from another application. You perhaps want to consult an Excel forum, e.g.

https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/106612-display-date-when-data-last-refreshed-external-data.html

Then save that refresh date in the date so you can read it in.

Re: SAS excel macro

varun45 — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:14:48 GMT

Hi,

Sorry,I am very new to this. Actually I am using excel with SAS add-in. I wanted to know the macro to find out the last refreshed time of the sheet. Can You help me in this?

Re: SAS excel macro

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:26:51 GMT

Use the right tool (Maxim 14), which is VBA, the dedicated programming environment for MS Office. I don't know if SAS could retrieve that date in any way through dictionary.tables when a library is assigned to the Excel workbook.

Re: SAS excel macro

RW9 — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:27:02 GMT

I am afraid I don't use that. What I would say is that is just a tool to pull data from a dataset, so its how that pull is done, and recording the datetime of that, e.g:

http://support.sas.com/kb/40/982.html

It would need to be stored in the datafile to be accessible, wouldn't think there is a property for that, but as I say I don't use.