How to export an additional excel worksheet of text only

[jpagitt]

SAS 9.4 TS1M5

I am trying to figure out a way of exporting an excel worksheet within the same workbook as my data output that is text only. This worksheet would be a glossary of terms and general information regarding the data. In the past, I have just used extensive footnotes, but I have reached the footnote limit as the amount of data definitions needed to provide to the customer is rather extensive in this case.

I am using ods excel to export. I believe that I could create this using datalines and I am sure that most likely needs to be part of it unless I stored the text in a separate txt file and imported it which can be done, but ultimately I don't want this to appear as a table per se in the excel - no presence of a label or field name.

I assume that this is a pretty easy request, but I haven't been able to find an example that really fits what I am looking for. Does anyone have experience with creating something like this?

Thank you.

[Krueger · Accepted solution]

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding but what your asking in the title; to me contradicts what your saying you want. 

I am trying to figure out a way of exporting an excel worksheet within the same workbook as my data output that is text only. 

Are you just wanting like a readme.txt file? If so you can export to .txt:

data _null_;
  set sashelp.class;
  file "c:\temp\someFile.txt";
  put name age sex;
  file print;
  put name age sex;
run;

If your just trying to input "text" you can use the ODS TEXT= option. Details here: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=odsug&docsetTarget=p14gx25pepks6dn1q9m7vkq3gfoi.htm&docsetVe...

Hopefully one of those helps.

[jpagitt]

I don't really want a readme. We'd use that internally, but when it comes to what is sent off, I really just want a way of packaging everything together with the data definitions wrapped into the worksheet itself or into a separate worksheet of the same workbook.

Looks like the ODS TEXT= option is going to work for me though. Thanks!