https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Convert-Word-symbol-to-SAS-readable-data/m-p/31334#M6004 I’m not sure that I fully understand your problem. If you need to display the ≥ symbol in a report generated by SAS, here is one way that it can be done.<BR /> <BR /> [pre]<BR /> ods html file='C:\temp.html';<BR /> ods listing close;<BR /> data temp;<BR /> x='greater than or equal to';<BR /> label x='Symbol is ^{unicode 2265}';<BR /> run;<BR /> <BR /> ods escapechar='^';<BR /> proc print data=temp label noobs;<BR /> run;<BR /> ods html close;<BR /> ods listing;<BR /> [/pre] Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:00:27 GMT polingjw 2011-03-17T11:00:27Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Convert-Word-symbol-to-SAS-readable-data/m-p/31333#M6003 Hi, I need to import data from an Excel file. One of the column (which will be used as variable label, or SAS format value) contains the symbol "≥". How can I read in this data correctly? Or how can I convert it to "&gt;=" so that SAS can display it properly?<BR /> Many Thanks Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:55:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Convert-Word-symbol-to-SAS-readable-data/m-p/31333#M6003 Alena 2011-03-16T23:55:42Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Convert-Word-symbol-to-SAS-readable-data/m-p/31334#M6004 I’m not sure that I fully understand your problem. If you need to display the ≥ symbol in a report generated by SAS, here is one way that it can be done.<BR /> <BR /> [pre]<BR /> ods html file='C:\temp.html';<BR /> ods listing close;<BR /> data temp;<BR /> x='greater than or equal to';<BR /> label x='Symbol is ^{unicode 2265}';<BR /> run;<BR /> <BR /> ods escapechar='^';<BR /> proc print data=temp label noobs;<BR /> run;<BR /> ods html close;<BR /> ods listing;<BR /> [/pre] Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:00:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Convert-Word-symbol-to-SAS-readable-data/m-p/31334#M6004 polingjw 2011-03-17T11:00:27Z