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OS2Rules
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi All:

I am using EXCELXP (v 1.127) on SAS 9.3 to create a spreadsheet.

My data contains 1 very large text field - sometimes up to 3,500 bytes.

When I attempt to print this using PROC REPORT it get an error message:

ERROR: At least one column width is wider than LINESIZE.

I am also using ODS HTML to output the data and entire text field is "wrapped" into a single "cell" - which is what

I would like the Excel sheet to do.

Any ideas?

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Tim_SAS
Barite | Level 11

That message occurs when you're writing to the listing. If you don't want listing output, turn it off before running PROC REPORT:

ods listing close;

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