topic Re: Macro to export sas dataset to Excel in SAS Programming

Macro to export sas dataset to Excel

rsulliv3 — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:58:03 GMT

Is there a simple macro out there that exports output of a sas dataset to excel? Note: I am using SAS EG 4.3 so unable to use PROC EXPORT.

Re: Macro to export sas dataset to Excel

Reeza — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:03:17 GMT

You should be able to use PROC EXPORT, unless you don't have a license for it, or you're on a server and can't proc export to your local drive which is what you're trying to do.

Regardless, there is a macro that may work for you, see code/paper here:

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/A_Poor/Rich_SAS_Users_Proc_Export

If it is the server issue, see this post:

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2012/12/06/copy-files-in-sas-eg/

Re: Macro to export sas dataset to Excel

RW9 — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:47:56 GMT

What do you want the Excel files? Are you trying to create some review output files? If so then I would first recommend using a report format - proc report to PDF or RTF for instance, although if they insist on Excel, then ods tagsets.excelxp (google for results).

If you are transferring data, then don't use Excel, it is not useful in any way as a data transfer format. Use Comma Separated Variable format.