Hi: unfortunately, I am teaching today and unable to run code. Excel opening HTML is a tricky business. Just because you name the file as .XLS, it is not a true, binary XLS file. Excel is opening an HTML file and doing with it what it wants to do. If you were still running SAS 8, you would be using HTML3 with ODS HTML. If you are using SAS 9, then the default HTML created is HTML 4.0. How your Excel renders that HTML depends on Excel. One thing you could try is to switch to "microsoft friendly" html and use ODS MSOFFICE2K file="..."; ...code... ODS MSOFFICE2K close; That may make Excel happier. It may not. A fall back position would be to work with Tech Support. I can try to take a look when I'm not teaching, but Tech Support might be faster. cynthia
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