Hi, Reeza's note is correct. I do not believe PROC EXPORT sends you the informative note; although the LIBNAME engine does. But, usually, the SAS formats, labels, etc are not sent to Excel with "export" methods in general. So if you use certain SAS formats on your variables, such as Z (for leading zeroes) or other formats, Excel doesn't get them, so it uses a default format when it loads the sheet. This is one of the reasons why people use ODS methods to send output to files for Excel to open -- because ODS has a way to send Microsoft-specific formatting instructions to Excel. But depending on what you need to do, it may be faster to reformat the columns. cynthia
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