ODS to EXCEL column labels not working

[doakley]

After several updates (including SAS 9.2 to SAS 9.3), an ODS to EXCEL sequence that is one of my workhorses now works only partially. The only problem is a failure to add specified column labels.

The code is:

ods html path="c:\temp\" (url=none) file="&YEAR._H01.xls" style=minimal;

PROC PRINT NOOBS LABEL DATA=M6;

     TITLE1 'TABLE H01';

     TITLE2 'MARRIAGES BY COUNTY OF ISSUANCE OF LICENSE ';

     TITLE3 'BY MONTH OF MARRIAGE';

     TITLE4 "KANSAS, &YEAR";

     FORMAT COUNTY COUNTY_B.;

     LABEL COUNTY='COUNTY OF ISSUANCE' COL1='TOTAL' COL2='JAN' COL3='FEB'

                COL4='MAR' COL5='APR' COL6='MAY' COL7='JUN'

                COL8='JUL' COL9='AUG' COL10='SEP' COL11='OCT' COL12='NOV' COL13='DEC';

RUN;

ods html close;

The column labels that appear in the output are COUNTY, COL1, COL2, COL3, etc.

Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong?

Thanks,

David Oakley

TABLE H01
MARRIAGES BY COUNTY OF ISSUANCE   OF LICENSE
BY MONTH OF MARRIAGE
KANSAS, 2012
COUNTY	COL1	COL2	COL3	COL4	COL5	COL6	COL7	COL8	COL9	COL10	COL11	COL12	COL13
Allen	71	3	4	6	5	5	12	10	4	6	9	5	2
Anderson	47	0	2	1	7	7	7	5	3	4	5	3	3

[rnmishra]

I am not really sure why your labels do not work. But a quick fix would be rename those variables in a data step  and use your above code.

If you need to write your reports in spreadsheets frequently have a look at EXELXP tagset.

Base SAS: Demo: ExcelXP Tagset and Microsoft Excel

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi, there is an option that will "turn off" the use of LABELS until you turn it back on again.

14973 - Labels not displayed with NOLABEL system option set

You might try:

options label;

before your ods html step. Perhaps your administrator turned off the use of labels as a default, for some reason.

SAS(R) 9.3 System Options: Reference, Second Edition

cynthia