https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-minimise-the-file-size-of-exporting-worksheets-to-excel/m-p/63528#M18064 You could export to .csv and then let Excel deal with the lengths. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:27:13 GMT Doc_Duke 2009-08-12T14:27:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-minimise-the-file-size-of-exporting-worksheets-to-excel/m-p/63527#M18063 Can anyone tell me is there other option to minimise the size of exported workbook beside using "style=minimal"?<BR /> Cause the size of excel file(consist of 9 worksheets) that I exported is more than 20Mbs, where "style=minimal" did not help out much. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:11:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-minimise-the-file-size-of-exporting-worksheets-to-excel/m-p/63527#M18063 tmc 2009-08-12T08:11:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-minimise-the-file-size-of-exporting-worksheets-to-excel/m-p/63528#M18064 You could export to .csv and then let Excel deal with the lengths. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:27:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-minimise-the-file-size-of-exporting-worksheets-to-excel/m-p/63528#M18064 Doc_Duke 2009-08-12T14:27:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-minimise-the-file-size-of-exporting-worksheets-to-excel/m-p/63529#M18065 Consider zipping the SAS-generated export file as part of your processing.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks, Inc.<BR /> <BR /> Subset Raw Data and Zip Them Up<BR /> Desheng(Ben) Xu, CGS, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL<BR /> <A href="http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/077-29.pdf" target="_blank">http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/077-29.pdf</A> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:14:53 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-minimise-the-file-size-of-exporting-worksheets-to-excel/m-p/63529#M18065 sbb 2009-08-12T15:14:53Z