Hi,
I try to export a table to Excel, with a simple PROC EXPORT.
But some formats are destroyed.
For example I have some amounts values, formats 15.2 in my SAS table, which have, after exporting, 4 decimals in my Excel spreadsheet. I'm sure you will agree that is a nonsense for amounts...
Is there anything I can do to avoid this? Or is it an Excel problem?
Thanks for answers.
using ODS tagsets.EXCELXP, will give you control over the format of the cells.
eg:
ODS tagsets.ExcelXP
FILE="&out\format.xls";
PROC PRINT DATA=test;
VAR name;
VAR height / STYLE={TAGATTR='format=0.00'};
RUN;
ODS tagsets.ExcelXP CLOSE;
Proc export won't, this is a feature of Excel trying to be helpful. If you output to a tagset, Excelxp for example, then you can force formats onto the value use the tagattr option. However this then creating XML output which may or may not be ok for you.
ODS Excel is a great option if you have SAS 9.4M3
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