Hi:   ODS TAGSETS.EXCELXP creates output in Microsoft Office 2003 Spreadsheet Markup Language XML. I believe there's been a paper about doing a "round trip" from SAS to Excel and then using an XML map to get the XML back into SAS format. I've never tried this myself, but I believe the papers point you to a macro that you can download to do the round trip.They are older papers, so you might want to work with Tech Support or the paper author to see whether there have been updates since the paper was originally written. http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi30/136-30.pdf http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/sugi29/ExcelXML.pdf cynthia ... View more