tagsets.excelxp: Excel convert the data?

[RD2]

Run following program in SAS 9.3

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data work.test;

infile cards firstobs=2;

input LABCODE $ ;

cards;

LABCODE 

01E01

01E02

01E03

01E08

AAAAA

;

run;

ods tagsets.excelxp style=sasweb file="C:\temp\test.XLS ";

proc print data=test  noobs  label;

run;

ods tagsets.excelxp close;

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In EXCEL 2007,  output EXCEL sheet  LABCODE become

10

100

1000

100000000

AAAAA

Is there any option to avoid this convertion?

[OS2Rules · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You just need to force the Excel output to be in text rather than a number....

use:        style(column)={tagattr='format:@'}

to format the variable in the print.