Sas download xlsx file

Thank you. Thank you so much for replying. Is there is a way not to use the shared folder thing? I'm using Macbook btw. All communication regarding files is done through the shared folder. It is set up explicitly for that. View solution in original post. For SAS to see the file you need to put it into or under the folder on your real machine that you shared with the virtual machine where SAS is running.

Once you have it there you need to know where it is from SAS's point of view. So copy that and paste it into the code editor window. Since it is a right click to download, or is it the part about finding the file to export as well? Personally, this may be useful, but it's a pretty small need IMO. Reeza I don't want to save the data at all on the remote server if I can avoid it.

I'm happy for the CSV to be generated on the fly in some location I don't care about, downloaded, and deleted automatically by SAS immediately after. Myself and the people I work with use this feature dozens of times a day. It's incredibly convenient. I want SAS Studio to be a great user experience.

Quality of life requests like this will help it get there. Andrew, I don't know what would make the file larger, exactly When you open and resave the file in Excel, perhaps Excel "enriches" the file with additional information, such as formatting instructions, so the resulting file is a bit larger.

I guess my particular problem is that when I try to pass SAS-created xlsx files as attachments through outlook to colleagues, they get quarantined for "bad compression", but if I open them, resave, and then attach to an email, they go through fine It might be interesting to examine the file versions, before and after the re-save operation. Chris, thanks for your help.

I was not able to comprehensively follow up on the issue, but I believe that it was a problem with my work environment unrelated to SAS. Hi Chris, The above syntax is not working for Mainframes SAS, is there any specific solution to export the data in excel file.

Thanks and Regards. We just installed bit SAS 9. This makes it pretty useless when I want to import multiple worksheets from a single Excel file. With SAS 9. Interesting find! I think in this case, it's the XLSX extension that is triggering the file format. I get the following error message when trying to import data from excel. I am using SAS 9. Are you sure that the file extension isn't XLSX? The proper file extension for most Microsoft Excel files has the "S" before the final "X".

Hello, after the file import with XLSX I have very strange columns behaviour - length of the actual data is equal to the length of the column, for example I try to create new integer column from string and get the following note: NOTE: Invalid numeric data, ' I concatenated '!!! Do you ever saw such a thing?

How are you importing this XLSX file? If you can supply more details, I suggest that you post the question to communities. The experts there can probably answer your question quickly. The code works good but,,, when I open the excel file a msg pops up that the file is corrupted and I couldn't open it!! If you want to follow up on this error, post in communities. How do I change the column width? The width of each column looks either too narrow or too wide in Excel.

How do I change it in the Proc Export statement? There are two other mechanisms that provide a little bit more control. Thank you very much! Here is my code. The problem was the text in a couple of columns got truncated in the Excel But these columns look very nice in SAS 9. The columns weren't truncated in SAS; but it's trruncated after ods to excel. Please help! I used your code and it works, but I have first few lines of comments in the excel before the data.

That way it will only copy the data into dataset instead of comments as variable. Pingback: SAS and Excel I'm using this to export, and it works well except that if I export more than 1 spreadsheet to a workbook, the spreadsheets are all linked.

If I don't remember to unlink them, any changes in one affects all the others. Is there some way to stop this? It happens both in a plain proc export and a ODS export to xlsx; it never happened when I was using xls. I wasn't aware the sheets become linked. Can you share specifics about how you are creating these XLSX files? Our tutorials reference a dataset called "sample" in many examples.

If you'd like to download the sample dataset to work through the examples, choose one of the files below:. We have updated the tutorial to include directions for both versions of SAS. This first screen will ask you to choose the type of data you wish to import. Click Standard data source and then choose the program that is the source of your data from the drop down menu. The second option, specifying a file format, is not covered in this tutorial.

In our case, the dataset we want to import is an Excel file, so select Microsoft Excel Workbook. As you can see, SAS provides you with a large variety of data types to import. Now you need to tell SAS where to find the file you want to import. You can either type the file directory into the text box, or click Browse and choose the file to import.

SAS then asks you what sheet from the file you want to import. In this example we will choose Sheet 1 since our data appears on Sheet 1 in the Excel file. Then click Options. Be sure and select the options that are correct for your dataset. The default is for all options to be checked, and that works for our purposes. Click Next. This next step tells SAS where you want to store the newly imported dataset.

The first drop-down menu is a list of available libraries that you can choose to store your newly imported SAS dataset in. If you want it to be temporarily stored for now, choose WORK.

The next dropdown menu, under Member , requires you to name the dataset. You can type in a dataset name here, or choose a dataset from the list. NOTE: Choosing an existing dataset from the list will over-write that data; the existing file in the library will be replaced with the file you are importing.