How do I export from SAS to Excel files Let me count the ways. I have a love hate relationship with spreadsheet data. I am interested in finding data to analyze, and if it arrives in the form of a spreadsheet, Ill take it. And I like to deliver results and reports, but often my constituents ask for it as a spreadsheet that they can then manipulate further. Sigh. A spreadsheet is not a database, so it can be a challenge to whip spreadsheet data into analysis ready shape. Likewise, saving results as a spreadsheet can lose something in the translation usually value formatting, appearance attributes, or graphs. SAS offers many ways to read from and write to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. They each have pros and cons. This post is an inventory of the methods that I know about for creating Excel files from within SAS. Some bits about 3. Before I get to the Big List, let me set the stage by describing a few terms and concepts. In order to create Excel files directly from SAS, you need SASACCESS to PC Files. This product enables all sorts of file exchanges between SAS and other PC based applications, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, SPSS, and more. SASACCESS to PC Files includes a component called the PC Files Server. The PC Files Server is a service based application that runs apart from SAS on a Windows node. It accepts requests from SAS to convert data to and from Excel and other file types. Traditionally, this innovation allows SAS running on UNIX where there are no native facilities for Excel data to exchange data with PC based data programs. Recent changes in desktop computing have complicated the picture. Newer desktop machines all have 6. Microsoft Windows. All of your 3. 2 bit applications designed for x. One of those rules is that a 6. And guess what There is a better than even chance that the built in data providers that you have for Microsoft Excel the bits that allow SAS to write to Excel on Windows are 3. This means that the PROC EXPORT DBMSEXCEL program that worked in your 3. Sas 9 3 X86 Server' title='Sas 9 3 X86 Server' />Introduction. This document describes an operating system upgrade process for SAP HANA solutions. Prerequisites Requirements. Cnc Software Mach3. Cisco recommends that you have knowledge. SAS session will not work in your 6. SAS session. There are two remedies for this bitness mismatch. First, you could install the 6. Microsoft Office. Requirements Subversion Edge 5. Windows 64bit CollabNet Subversion Edge for Windows 64 bit Version 5. License GNU Affero General Public License 3. HP EliteBook 850 G5 NonTouch ACover No WWAN 360 degree product spin. Viking Technology has started shipping their new lineup of ultra high capacity UHC SSDs designed to replace 3. HDDs in capacitydemanding applications that can. Hardware. Raptor Computing looks to end x86 domination with POWER9based Talos II Secure Workstation. But you cannot have both the 3. Microsoft Office, then youre stuck with the 3. The second remedy is to use the PC Files Server, right there on the same Windows machine where SAS is running. This allows a 6. 4 bit SAS process to delegate the data exchange to a 3. PC Files Server process. Thanks to the out of process communication, this circumvents the bit architecture mismatch. To make this work you dont have to set up any additional software, but your SAS programs must change to use DBMSEXCELCS. The EXCELCS keyword tells SAS to use the PC Files Server instead of attempting to use in process data providers. Exporting to Excel ways to get there from SASWith the architecture lesson behind us, heres my list for how to put SAS content into Microsoft Excel. I wont dive into much detail about each method here you can follow the links to find more documentation. These methods use features of SASACCESS to PC Files LIBNAME EXCEL readswrites Excel files at the sheet level when the bitness of SAS 3. Microsoft Office installed or more specifically, the ACE drivers that accompany Office. An Excel file is viewed as a SAS library, while sheetsranges are the member tables. Requires exclusive lock on an existing Excel file. LIBNAME PCFILES does the same as LIBNAME EXCEL, but uses PC Files Server. Good for UNIX and for Windows configurations where bitness of SAS and Microsoft Office dont match. PROC EXPORT DBMSEXCELCS uses PC Files Server to write an Excel file. There are various options to control the output behavior. Good for UNIX and for Windows configurations where bitness of SAS and Microsoft Office dont match. PROC EXPORT DBMSEXCEL writes Excel files when the bitness of SAS 3. Microsoft Office installed or more specifically, the ACE drivers that accompany Office. PROC EXPORT DBMSXLS writes Excel XLS files directly, no driver or PC Files Server needed. Has limits on volume and format. Works on Windows and UNIX. Sas 9 3 X86 Server' title='Sas 9 3 X86 Server' />PROC EXPORT DBMSXLSX new in 9. M1, writes Excel 2. HP_683946-425_291151_578053.jpg' alt='Sas 9 3 X86 Server' title='Sas 9 3 X86 Server' />XLSX format directly. No driver or PC Files Server needed. Works on Windows and UNIX. The following methods do not require SASACCESS to PC Files, so they are popular, even if they dont produce native Excel files PROC EXPORT DBMSCSV produces comma separated value files, most often used in Excel. ODS TAGSETS. CSV or just DATA step and FILE output produces comma separated value files, most often used in Excel. ODS TAGSETS. EXCELXP uses ODS to create an Office XML file. Provides a fair amount of control over the content appearance, but recent versions of Excel do not recognize as a native format, so user is presented with a message to that effect when opening in Excel. FILENAME DDE uses Windows messages to control what goes into an Excel file, down to the cell level. Works only when SAS for Windows and Excel are on the same machine. Doesnt work in SAS workspace servers or stored process servers often accessed with SAS Enterprise Guide. Its an antiquated approach, but offers tremendous control that many long time SAS users enjoy. SAS client applications make it easier. While Ive focused on the SAS programming methods for creating Excel files, applications like SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add In for Microsoft Office make the operation a breeze. SAS Enterprise Guide can import and export Excel files through point and click methods, and SASACCESS to PC Files is not needed to make that work. However, the work is not captured in a SAS program, so it cannot be run in SAS batch jobs or stored processes. SAS Add In for Microsoft Office turns the problem on its head. By allowing you to access SAS data and analytics from within Microsoft Excel, you pull the results into your Excel session, rather than export them from your SAS session. IOI Technology Corporation Your IO Solution Provider.