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Paper 316-2013 Maintaining Formats when Exporting Datafrom SAS into Microsoft Excel Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics, Seattle, WAColleen McGahan, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BCABSTRACTData Formats often get lost when Exporting from SAS into Excel using common procedures such asPROCEXPORTor the ExcelXP tagset. In this paper we describe some tricks to retain those : SAS, Excel, export, : Exporting data FROM SAS into EXCELMany typical ways of Exporting data from SAS to Excel, such asPROC EXPORTor the ExcelXP tagset, destroythe data Formats . To illustrate this, we first create a formatted version of set, with onestudent s information set to missing: data class;SET ;FORMAT age 3. height weight ;IF name = 'Thomas' THEN age =.
which translates the SAS data formats into Excel formats, as shown in Table 1. It works by creating a macro variable of the Excel format and then sending that to Excel. See Derby (2008b) or Vyverman (2003) for details. The missing age for Thomas is also correctly displayed as a blank cell (rather than a cell with a blank space).2
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