Hi The fact that the exported datasets does not have any formats attached to a variable where format name is >8 Character long is not a problem of Stata. Because, I have checked that Stata 17 can create formats with name longer than 8 character and attach them to variables without any problems. I also replicated the SAS code to create a SPSS datafile which also has the same problem. Thus, it looks to me an issue with the FMTLIM statement in PROC EXPORT. ... View more