Re: SAS excel macro

varun45 · Posted 05-22-2018 08:04 AM

Is there a macro to find the last refreshed time of the excel sheet?

RW9 · Posted 05-22-2018 08:07 AM

?? SAS Macros are not Excel macros. So no, there is no SAS Macro to find something from another application. You perhaps want to consult an Excel forum, e.g.

https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/106612-display-date-when-data-last-refreshed-external-...

Then save that refresh date in the date so you can read it in.

varun45 · Posted 05-22-2018 08:14 AM

Hi,

Sorry,I am very new to this. Actually I am using excel with SAS add-in. I wanted to know the macro to find out the last refreshed time of the sheet. Can You help me in this?

Kurt_Bremser · Posted 05-22-2018 08:26 AM

Use the right tool (Maxim 14), which is VBA, the dedicated programming environment for MS Office. I don't know if SAS could retrieve that date in any way through dictionary.tables when a library is assigned to the Excel workbook.

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RW9 · Posted 05-22-2018 08:27 AM

I am afraid I don't use that. What I would say is that is just a tool to pull data from a dataset, so its how that pull is done, and recording the datetime of that, e.g:

http://support.sas.com/kb/40/982.html

It would need to be stored in the datafile to be accessible, wouldn't think there is a property for that, but as I say I don't use.

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