topic Importing word document in EG 4.1 in SAS Enterprise Guide https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Importing-word-document-in-EG-4-1/m-p/127828#M10542 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>How can I import a word document in EG 4.1?</P><P></P><P>The word document is a case study with 172 pages having 20 questions for each member? I would like to save the answers from 172 members. any suggestions?</P><P></P><P>thanks in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:16:45 GMT avatar 2012-09-21T18:16:45Z Importing word document in EG 4.1 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Importing-word-document-in-EG-4-1/m-p/127828#M10542 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>How can I import a word document in EG 4.1?</P><P></P><P>The word document is a case study with 172 pages having 20 questions for each member? I would like to save the answers from 172 members. any suggestions?</P><P></P><P>thanks in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:16:45 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Importing-word-document-in-EG-4-1/m-p/127828#M10542 avatar 2012-09-21T18:16:45Z Re: Importing word document in EG 4.1 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Importing-word-document-in-EG-4-1/m-p/127829#M10543 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Some suggestions.&nbsp; There is no magic bullet.</P><P></P><UL><LI>you could save the Word document as an XML file and use the XML engine to read it.&nbsp; If the data are nicely formatted, this may work.</LI><LI>you could save the document as text and parse it using the data step.&nbsp; This involves messy coding, but I have done it successfully.&nbsp; It is rarely portable.</LI><LI>If the answers are in a table in word, you could copy them into Excel and read that.</LI></UL></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:41:07 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Importing-word-document-in-EG-4-1/m-p/127829#M10543 Doc_Duke 2012-09-24T14:41:07Z Re: Importing word document in EG 4.1 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Importing-word-document-in-EG-4-1/m-p/127830#M10544 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you very much. I copied all the text and pasted in Excel .</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:17:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Importing-word-document-in-EG-4-1/m-p/127830#M10544 avatar 2012-09-24T17:17:32Z