https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Export-dot-missings-to-Excel/m-p/263357#M57739 Hi everyone,<BR /><BR />I am trying to export some data to Excel from SAS EG 7.1 using proc export and dbms = xls. It works well except that one of my numeric variables includes both ordinary missings and .S and both are converted to blanks in the export. Is there a way to retain the .S as this or some other value that distinguishes it from the ordinary missings?<BR /><BR />One solution is to use dbms = .csv but I then have problems with losing leading zeros in a character variable. And I also can't export multiple SAS datasets to different worksheets in the same Excel file then.<BR /><BR />And another is to convert the numeric variable to a character - this changes .S to S which is fine, but converts the ordinary numeric missings to . in Excel plus all numbers to text which isn't so helpful.<BR /><BR />Is there anything else I could try?<BR /><BR />Many thanks,<BR />Zaneta Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:30:59 GMT Zaneta 2016-04-13T00:30:59Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Export-dot-missings-to-Excel/m-p/263357#M57739 Hi everyone,<BR /><BR />I am trying to export some data to Excel from SAS EG 7.1 using proc export and dbms = xls. It works well except that one of my numeric variables includes both ordinary missings and .S and both are converted to blanks in the export. Is there a way to retain the .S as this or some other value that distinguishes it from the ordinary missings?<BR /><BR />One solution is to use dbms = .csv but I then have problems with losing leading zeros in a character variable. And I also can't export multiple SAS datasets to different worksheets in the same Excel file then.<BR /><BR />And another is to convert the numeric variable to a character - this changes .S to S which is fine, but converts the ordinary numeric missings to . in Excel plus all numbers to text which isn't so helpful.<BR /><BR />Is there anything else I could try?<BR /><BR />Many thanks,<BR />Zaneta Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:30:59 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Export-dot-missings-to-Excel/m-p/263357#M57739 Zaneta 2016-04-13T00:30:59Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Export-dot-missings-to-Excel/m-p/263402#M57741 <P>In Excel, a missing numerical value is always represented as an empty cell. So if you want to have the column as numeric data, blanks is what you get.</P> <P>A workaround could be to assign special non-missing values for your .S (before you do the export), which you could then use with a user-defined format in Excel, if that is possible.</P> Wed, 13 Apr 2016 06:15:59 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Export-dot-missings-to-Excel/m-p/263402#M57741 Kurt_Bremser 2016-04-13T06:15:59Z