thank you for your help , following is the information from log : yes , my SAS is 64 byte, and the xls file is 32 byte , but i have install PC file server. by the way , what's the name range? 2121 2122 libname apple XLS 'C:\Users\Documents\Sales.xls'; ERROR: The XLS engine cannot be found. ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement. 2123 2124 proc print data = apple.Sales; ERROR: Libref APPLE is not assigned. 2125 where EmpID = '9888' or EmpID = '0177'; WARNING: No data sets qualify for WHERE processing. 2126 2127 run; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used (Total process time): real time 0.20 seconds cpu time 0.00 seconds
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