topic Re: Link to Excel spreadsheet rather than IMPORT in SAS Enterprise Guide

Link to Excel spreadsheet rather than IMPORT

Haris — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:27:03 GMT

I love the ability to add links to MS Office documents in SEG projects. Can't seem to do that for Excel files. SEG automatically wants to IMPORT them. Is there a way to change this default behavior permanently or control it on a link-by-link basis? I'd like to click on an Excel link and have SEG open Excel rather than IMPORT.

Thanks!

Re: Link to Excel spreadsheet rather than IMPORT

CaseySmith — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:25:06 GMT

Hi Haris,

EG is probably being a little too helpful by assuming you want to automatically import Excel files. Fortunately, yes, you can turn this off by unchecking the "Automatically import data when added to project" option in EG's Tools->Options->Data->Data General page.

Glad to hear you like the ability to add links to external files in EG projects.

Casey