https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Issue-with-DDE-to-export-data-to-Excel/m-p/71144#M15366 Thats worked. Thanks a lot! Tue, 31 May 2011 04:26:03 GMT A_B_C 2011-05-31T04:26:03Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Issue-with-DDE-to-export-data-to-Excel/m-p/71142#M15364 When I am trying output data using DDE facing the following problem hence any help is greatly appreciable.<BR /> <BR /> When I am trying to export data to Excel using DDE, one row is splitting up into two rows and getting displayed in Excel. This is happening for few observations and rest are coming once observation per row.<BR /> <BR /> The following is the code I am using:<BR /> filename myexcel dde "Excel|[SAE Template_1.xls]sae_details!r6c5:r567c29" notab;<BR /> data _null_;<BR /> set sae_final_n;<BR /> file myexcel ;<BR /> put patid '09'x saeno '09'x stdytrt '09'x saediag '09'x onsetdt '09'x onsettm '09'x stopdt '09'x stoptm '09'x saecrit '09'x acttkn '09'x outcm '09'x causal '09'x grade '09'x saecomm '09'x typerept '09'x crfsaediag '09'x crfonsetdt '09'x crfonsettm '09'x crfenddt '09'x crfendtm '09'x saecrt '09'x act_tkn '09'x outcome '09'x causal '09'x intenseassctcae ;<BR /> run;<BR /> <BR /> <BR /> here is the ouptut:<BR /> 01007 7 DISEASE PROGRESSION 28-Dec-10 06:00:00 NA NA - Death Unlikely Grade 5 Preliminary EXTREME FATIGUE AND COUGH WITH HEMOPTYSIS 28-Dec-10 06:00 . . Hospitalization Unlikely Grade 3<BR /> 01007 7 DISEASE PROGRESSION 28-Dec-10 06:00:00 NA NA Death - Death Unlikely Grade 5 Final DISEASE PROGRESSION 28-Dec-10 06:00 . . Death Unlikely Grade 5<BR /> 01008 1 FATIGUE 22-May-10 12:40:00 28-May-10 03:40 Symptomatic treatment and hospitalization Recovered Unassessable/ Unclassifiable Grade 3 Final FATIGUE 22-May-10 12:40 28-May-10 03:40 Hospitalization <BR /> Hospitalization,SymptomaticRx Recovered Unassessable/ Unclassifiable Grade 3 <BR /> <BR /> In the above output for the patient 01008, the data after the variable 'saecrt' (hospitalization) the data for next variables(Hospitalization,SymptomaticRx Recovered Unassessable/ Unclassifiable Grade 3 ) displayed in the next row Excel. am not sure why is it happening. Any help is greatly appreciable Mon, 30 May 2011 14:00:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Issue-with-DDE-to-export-data-to-Excel/m-p/71142#M15364 A_B_C 2011-05-30T14:00:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Issue-with-DDE-to-export-data-to-Excel/m-p/71143#M15365 Hello.<BR /> <BR /> Try to add linesize option.<BR /> <BR /> filename myexcel dde "Excel|[SAE Template_1.xls]sae_details!r6c5:r567c29" notab;<BR /> data _null_;<BR /> set sae_final_n;<BR /> file myexcel <B> ls=32000 </B> ;<BR /> put patid '09'x saeno '09'x stdytrt '09'x saediag '09'x onsetdt '09'x onsettm '09'x stopdt '09'x stoptm '09'x saecrit '09'x acttkn '09'x outcm '09'x causal '09'x grade '09'x saecomm '09'x typerept '09'x crfsaediag '09'x crfonsetdt '09'x crfonsettm '09'x crfenddt '09'x crfendtm '09'x saecrt '09'x act_tkn '09'x outcome '09'x causal '09'x intenseassctcae ;<BR /> run; Mon, 30 May 2011 14:05:37 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Issue-with-DDE-to-export-data-to-Excel/m-p/71143#M15365 Oleg_L 2011-05-30T14:05:37Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Issue-with-DDE-to-export-data-to-Excel/m-p/71144#M15366 Thats worked. Thanks a lot! Tue, 31 May 2011 04:26:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Issue-with-DDE-to-export-data-to-Excel/m-p/71144#M15366 A_B_C 2011-05-31T04:26:03Z