Sorry, no not really.  I would suggest that if you are writing to Excel then you would be better served by using the ods excelxp tagset.  This will give you a lot more control over the output, and in conjunction with proc report rather than proc print can work wonders: ods tagsets.excelxp file="myfile.xls" style=fancyprinter; proc report data=your_data nowd;      columns a b c d e...;      define     a / "Label for A" style(header)=[just=l];      define     b /...; run; ods tagsets.excelxp close; ... View more