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frisco
Calcite | Level 5
I am giving an end user an export on Excel with labels using tagsets.excelxp - I would like to include variable names for ease of troubleshooting - is this possible? I did not see a post on this, forgive me if the question has already been asked.
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Cynthia_sas
Diamond | Level 26
Hi:
I don't believe there's an automatic option to do it, but you could code it yourself using either the "brute force" method shown below or any number of more automated and/or "macro-ized" solutions to build the text string that represents the label.

cynthia

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ods tagsets.excelxp file='var_labl.xml' style=sasweb;

proc report data=sashelp.class nowd split='#';
column name age sex height weight;
define name / order 'Name#What Name';
define age /display 'Age#How Old';
define height / display 'Height#How Tall';
define sex / display 'Sex#What Gender';
define weight / display 'Weight#How Heavy';
run;

ods tagsets.excelxp close;


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