I contacted SAS Technical Support. We found two workarounds for this issue.    1. The SAS workaround is to set the absolute_column_width value in the ods excel options. Setting style=pearl and absolute_column_width="11.7" results in an image with close to 100% scale width in excel. However, setting style=journal requires absolute_column_width="10.75" to produce an image with 100% scale width in Excel. You must include a non-graph table and a graph in the same worksheet in order for the absolute_column_width option to have an effect on the default size/scaling of the graph.  If the worksheet *only* includes graph output, then the  absolute_column_width  does not have any effect on the default size/scaling of the graph.    Example: ods excel file="c:\projects\output\example.xlsx" /* will apply an appearance style */ style=pearl options( /* for multiple procs/sheet */ sheet_interval="none" /* name the sheet tab */ sheet_name="CARS summary" absolute_column_width="11.5" ); 2. The Excel workaround is to right click on the image to format the picture, and under size properties click the "reset" button. You can use Excel VBA to scale the picture if you have multiple affected images and/or worksheets.  ... View more