Avoid line breaks when exporting long text to Excel

[Ksharp]

@ChrisNZ 

Sorry to bring it up. 

Maybe style "cellwidth="  could help you .

P.S. I am using SAS9.4M4

ods excel file='c:\temp\reports.xlsx' style=seaside ;
data T ;
  format X $256.;
  X='Sed ut perspiciatis, unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam eaque ipsa, quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt, explicabo.';
proc report data=t nowd ;
define x/display  style(column)={cellwidth=100cm} ;
run;
ods excel close;

[bnawrocki]

I'm running M6, and couldn't get it to work when writing a column called Name to Excel.

Name is my SAS field created by concatenating a person's First, Middle and Last Name fields, using CATX function to insert a space between each name. Excel would ALWAYS insert a "line-break" character between either first-and-middle or middle-and-last name! Ugh!

What worked for me was to change the space within " " to a non-breaking-space char (Alt-0160) as the delimiter to CATX function. Luckily, Excel enforces the non-breaking-space character.

name = catx(" ",FIRST, MIDDLE, LAST);

[ChrisNZ]

I'd rather avoid special characters. But thanks for the tip. M7 is supposed to come soon.... has been for a while now.... 🙂