I entered the piece of code using the sample from
http://support.sas.com/kb/43/470.html
where you have
ods path(prepend) work.templat(update);
filename temp url http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/odsmarkup/msoffice2k/msoffice2k_x.sas; %include temp;
but somehow when EG
reads the file msoffice2k_x.sas but some of commands are not recognized and I am gettting errors as per below
494      !+"<html xmlns:x=""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel""" NL;
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ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'html'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'xmlns'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'x'
494       +                       x=""
                                    __
                                    49
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'urn'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'schemas'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'microsoft'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'com'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'office'
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ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'excel'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'xmlns'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'v'
495       +          put "      xmlns:v=""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"">" NL;
                                        __
                                        49
ERROR 79-322: Expecting a /.
NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string may change in a future SAS release.  
             Inserting white space between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is 
             recommended.
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'urn'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'schemas'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'microsoft'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'com'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'vml'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'html'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'head'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'meta'
504       +           meta
504      !+name=""Excel Workbook Frameset"">" NL /if $worksheet_source;
                __
                49
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'Excel'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'Workbook'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'Frameset'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'link'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'rel'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'File'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'List'
519       +    put "<style> @page {";
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ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'mso'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'page'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'orientation'
ERROR: Unknown symbol: 'landscape'
520       +                               landscape; " / if cmp($orientation,"landscape");
                                                     _________________________
                                                     49
520       +    put " mso-page-orientation:landscape; " / if cmp($orientation,"landscape");
                                                     _________________________
                                                     180
NOTE 49-169: The meaning of an identifier after a quoted string may change in a future SAS release.  
             Inserting white space between a quoted string and the succeeding identifier is 
             recommended.
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, a quoted string, 
              a numeric constant, ;, !, !!, $, &, (, ), *, **, +, ',', -, /, :, <, <=, <>, =, =<, =>, 
              >, ><, >=, ?, @, ABBR, ABSTRACT, ACRONYM, ACTIVELINKCOLOR, AFTER, ALT, ANCHOR, AND, 
              ANY, ARCHIVE, ASIS, ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE, AUTHOR, BACKGROUNDCOLOR, BACKGROUNDIMAGE, 
              BACKGROUNDPOSITION, BACKGROUNDREPEAT, BASENAME, BEFORE, BETWEEN, BLUE, BODYSCROLLBAR, 
              BODYSIZE, BODY_NAME, BODY_TITLE, BODY_URL, BORDERBOTTOMCOLOR, BORDERBOTTOMSTYLE, 
              BORDERBOTTOMWIDTH, BORDERCOLLAPSE, BORDERCOLOR, BORDERCOLORDARK, BORDERCOLORLIGHT, 
              BORDERLEFTCOLOR, BORDERLEFTSTYLE, BORDERLEFTWIDTH, BORDERRIGHTCOLOR, BORDERRIGHTSTYLE, 
              BORDERRIGHTWIDTH, BORDERSPACING, BORDERSTYLE, BORDERTOPCOLOR, BORDERTOPSTYLE, 
              BORDERTOPWIDTH, BORDERWIDTH, BOTTOM, CAPSTYLE, CAPTION, CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING, 
              CLABEL, CLASS, CLASSID, CLOSURE, CMP, CODE, CODEBASE, CODE_NAME, CODE_TITLE, CODE_URL, 
              COLCOUNT, COLEND, COLOR, COLSPAN, COLSTART, COLUMNAXIS, COLWIDTH, COL_ID, CONNECT, 
              CONTAINS, CONTENTPOSITION, CONTENTSCROLLBAR, CONTENTSIZE, CONTENTS_NAME, 
              CONTENTS_TITLE, CONTENTS_URL, CONTENTTYPE, CONTRASTCOLOR, COORDINATE, CSSSTYLE, 
              CSSTEXT, CURSOR, DATAENCODING, DATATYPE, DATA_NAME, DATA_ROW, DATA_TITLE, DATA_URL, 
              DATA_VIEWER, DATE, DEFWIDTH, DEPTH, DESCRIPTION, DEST_FILE, DEVICE_TYPE, DIMENSION, 
              DISPLAYOPTS, DNAME, DOCTYPE, DROPSHADOW, EMPTY, ENCODING, END, ENDCOLOR, EQ, 
              EVENT_NAME, EXIST, EXISTS, FILL, FILLRULEWIDTH, FIRSTPAGE, FIRST_STACKED_VALUE, 
              FLYOVER, FMTLANG, FONT, FONTFAMILY, FONTSIZE, FONTSTYLE, FONTWEIGHT, FONTWIDTH, FRAME, 
              FRAMEBORDER, FRAMEBORDERWIDTH, FRAMESPACING, FRAME_NAME, FRAME_TITLE, FRAME_URL, FUZZ, 
              GE, GENFORMAT, GRADIENTDIRECTION, GRAPH_PATH_NAME, GRAPH_PATH_URL, GREEN, GRSEG, GT, 
              HEADERS, HEIGHT, HIDDEN, HREF, HREFTARGET, HTMLID, HTMLSTYLE, ID, IMAGESTYLE, IN, 
              IN_ASSOCIATION, IN_CAPTION, IS_NOTE, IS_STACKED, IS_TITLE, JAVADATE, JAVATIME, JUST, 
              KEEPN, LABEL, LANGUAGE, LAST_STACKED_VALUE, LE, LEFT, LEVEL, LIKE, LINESTYLE, 
              LINETHICKNESS, LINKCOLOR, LISTENTRYANCHOR, LISTENTRYDBLSPACE, LISTSTYLEIMAGE, 
              LISTSTYLEMARKER, LISTSTYLETYPE, LIST_INDEX, LONGDESC, LT, MARGIN, MARGINBOTTOM, 
              MARGINLEFT, MARGINRIGHT, MARGINTOP, MARKERSIZE, MARKERSYMBOL, MAX, MIN, MINOR, MISSING, 
              MULTILABEL, MULTIPLIER, NAME, NE, NEUTRALCOLOR, NOBASE, NOBREAKSPACE, NOCENTER, NOEDIT, 
              NOT, NOTSORTED, NO_BOTTOM, NO_TOP, NO_WRAP, OFFSET, OPERATOR, OR, OUTPUT_LABEL, 
              OUTPUT_NAME, OUTPUT_TYPE, OVERHANGFACTOR, PADDING, PADDINGBOTTOM, PADDINGLEFT, 
              PADDINGRIGHT, PADDINGTOP, PAGEBREAKHTML, PAGES_NAME, PAGES_TITLE, PAGES_URL, 
              PAGE_COLUMNS, PAGE_COUNT, PARENTMEMBER, PATH, PATH_NAME, PATH_URL, POSITION, POSTHTML, 
              POSTIMAGE, POSTTEXT, PRECISION, PREFIX, PREHTML, PREIMAGE, PRETEXT, PROC_COUNT, 
              PROC_NAME, PROTECTSPECIALCHARS, RAWVALUE, RED, REF_ID, REGION_HEIGHT, REGION_RAW_X, 
              REGION_RAW_Y, REGION_WIDTH, REGION_X, REGION_Y, RIGHT, ROUND, ROW, ROWAXIS, ROWSPAN, 
              RULES, SASFORMAT, SASLONGVERSION, SASVERSION, SCALE, SECTION, SECTIONDATA, SHAPE, 
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              SLICEAXIS, SPACE, SPLIT, START, STARTCOLOR, STARTVALUE, STATE, STYLE, STYLESHEET_NAME, 
              STYLESHEET_TITLE, STYLESHEET_URL, STYLE_ELEMENT, SUFFIX, SUMMARY, SUPPRESS_CHARSET, 
              TAGATTR, TAGSET, TAGSET_ALIAS, TAG_NAME, TARGET, TEXT, TEXTALIGN, TEXTDECORATION, 
              TEXTINDENT, TEXTJUSTIFY, THRESHOLD, TICKDISPLAY, TIME, TITLE, TOC_LEVEL, TOP, 
              TOTAL_PAGE_COUNT, TOTAL_PROC_COUNT, TRANSPARENCY, TRANTAB, TRIGGER_NAME, TYPE, 
              UNFORMATTEDTYPE, UNFORMATTEDVALUE, UNFORMATTEDWIDTH, URL, VALIDATED_DEVICE, VALUE, 
              VALUESCOUNT, VERTICALALIGN, VISITEDLINKCOLOR, VJUST, VMERGE, WATERMARK, WHITESPACE, 
              WIDTH, XMLCDATA, XMLCONTROL, XMLDATAFORM, XMLMETADATA, XMLPARM, XMLSCHEMA, ^, ^=, 
              _NAME_, _VALUE_, |, ~, ~=.  
ERROR 200-322: The symbol is not recognized and will be ignored.
ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.
521       +    putq " mso-header-data:" $print_header ";" NL /if $print_header;
                                                        ______________________________________________
                                                        180
522       +    putq " mso-footer-data:" $print_footer ";" NL /if $print_footer;
                                                        ______________________________________________
                                                        180
523       +    put " margin: " $margin ";" NL / if $margin;
                                         _____________________________________________________________
                                         180
524       +    put " margin-left:" $left_margin ";" NL /  if $left_margin;;
                                                  ____________________________________________________
                                                  180
525       +    put " margin-right:" $right_margin ";" NL / if $right_margin; ;
                                                    __________________________________________________
                                                    180
526       +    put " margin-top:" $top_margin ";" NL /  if $top_margin;;
                                                ______________________________________________________
                                                180
527       +    put " margin-bottom" $bottom_margin ";" NL / if $bottom_margin;
                                                     _________________________________________________
                                                     180
528       +    put " mso-header-margin:" $header_margin ";" NL /if $header_margin;
                                                          ____________________________________________
                                                          180
529       +    put " mso-footer-margin:" $footer_margin ";" NL /if $footer_margin;
                                                          ____________________________________________
                                                          180
547       +     putq "  mso-displayed-decimal-separator:" $decimal_separator ";"
                                                                               _
                                                                               180
547      !+   NL;
548       +     putq "  mso-displayed-thousand-separator:" $thousand_separator ";"
                                                                                 _
                                                                                 180
548      !+ NL;
553       +         put " background-color:"  $banner_even " !important;"
                                                                        _
                                                                        180
553      !+ NL / if $banner_even;
554       +         put " color:" $fbanner_even " !important;" NL / if $fbanner_even;
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                                                             _________________________________________
                                                             180
558       +         put " background-color:"  $banner_odd " !important;"
                                                                       _
                                                                       180
558      !+ NL / if $banner_odd;
559       +         put " color:" $fbanner_odd " !important;" NL / if $fbanner_odd;
                                                            __________________________________________
                                                            180
650       +      put " </x:PageBreaks>" NL;
                                      ________________________________________________________________
                                      49
ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.
After I installed SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office the issue was resolved.
I tried your exact code, except I needed quotes around the url as below:
ods path(prepend) work.templat(update);
filename temp url "http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/odsmarkup/msoffice2k/msoffice2k_x.sas"; %include temp;
run;
and it worked perfectly in my EG session. Could be some characters got dropped on the data transfer?!?
Tom
After I installed SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office the issue was resolved.
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