https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/export-to-excel-quot-ERROR-The-width-of-lt-variable-gt-is-not/m-p/689393#M209573 Hi Jim, thanks for suggestion, I am new to this community, I will do as next time onwards. Also found the solution for my question. I need to close the destination or any similar files, in my case, I need to close all excel files before I run the program. because it predetermining the length based on the open file. Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:47:21 GMT SASuserlot 2020-10-07T00:47:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/export-to-excel-quot-ERROR-The-width-of-lt-variable-gt-is-not/m-p/689386#M209568 <P>I am exporting dataset to excel file however, length of my variable string is 150$ so I assigned that, but when am proc reprting getting an erro</P><P>"ERROR: The width of "&lt;variable&gt;" is not between 1 and 102. Adjust the column width or line size.&nbsp;</P><P>but I never assigned the line size&nbsp; how to fix this error.</P> Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:31:40 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/export-to-excel-quot-ERROR-The-width-of-lt-variable-gt-is-not/m-p/689386#M209568 SASuserlot 2020-10-07T00:31:40Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/export-to-excel-quot-ERROR-The-width-of-lt-variable-gt-is-not/m-p/689390#M209571 <P>Can you post the code and the log please?&nbsp; Please use the SAS code and the other code (for the log) button. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Jim</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="jimbarbour_0-1602031087433.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50244i10298C4CFAC5BDE5/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="jimbarbour_0-1602031087433.png" alt="jimbarbour_0-1602031087433.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:38:43 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/export-to-excel-quot-ERROR-The-width-of-lt-variable-gt-is-not/m-p/689390#M209571 jimbarbour 2020-10-07T00:38:43Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/export-to-excel-quot-ERROR-The-width-of-lt-variable-gt-is-not/m-p/689393#M209573 Hi Jim, thanks for suggestion, I am new to this community, I will do as next time onwards. Also found the solution for my question. I need to close the destination or any similar files, in my case, I need to close all excel files before I run the program. because it predetermining the length based on the open file. Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:47:21 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/export-to-excel-quot-ERROR-The-width-of-lt-variable-gt-is-not/m-p/689393#M209573 SASuserlot 2020-10-07T00:47:21Z