Your UE is an encapsulated server that you can only communicate with through the web interface and the shared folder.
Since it's a pure learning tool for Base SAS coding, automatisation is not intended and not possible.
Have your Excel data saved to a reasonable file format (csv or tab-separated), then you don't need ACCESS to PC Files, and can do everything from your licensed SAS.
Or import the Excel file to a dataset stored in the shared folder, and define a libname to the shared folder in your licensed SAS.
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