Hello, Please help.  I am stuck, and I am trying to determine if my code is faulty or for some reason Excel 2016 and SAS 9.4 is not opening dde session.  Here is my simple code. options noxwait noxsync; filename test dde 'excel|[C:Desktop\example.xlsx]sheet1!r2c1:r2c2' notab; data _null_; file test; a='test one'; b='test two'; put a $15. '09'x b $15.; run; I have not used DDE in a little while, but I believe this code worked before.  Thank you.   ... View more