Thanks, that was helpful. If I set scan_text to 'no' then specify the lengths myself, it works but I don't want to set the lengths myself for the rest of the sheets. It means I have to have one libname with scan_text=no, used for this one sheet, and another with scan_text=yes for the rest of the sheets, even though it's the same excel file.
So with scan_text=no I could
a) specify the lengths with a length statement, in which case I had to set option VARLENCHK = NOWARN for this step since the lengths were conflicting with the default lengths SAS wanted to assign. And get rid of the informats.
b) set the lengths with (DBSASTYPE=...). It took me a while since, when specifying the source column from Excel, you have to use "Column Name"n <- n for the original name with spaces.
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