text formating Excel cell with dde

[indox]

Hello,

How to text format a cell using dde?

Thank you.

[RW9]

Whilst it may be possible, I would really advise that you drop DDE as it has been out of support for well over 10years now, and in some cases doesn't work.  If you need formatting on your output data, consider using one of the newer techqniques such as excelxp/excel in combination with proc report which can give detailed formatted reports.  If you need something in advance of that, then dump your data out to CSV, and then using VBA in Excel open that CSV and process further.

[indox · Accepted solution]

Hello,

For those who are in the same situation, here is the solution:

filename xlappli dde "excel|system";
data _null_;
file xlappli;
PUT "[SELECT(""R1C1:R1C1"")]" ;
PUT "[FORMAT.NUMBER(""@"")]" ;
run;

This will format the cell A1 in text format.

Indox.