Migrate SAS Content

In the SAS Add-In 5.1 for Microsoft Office, you can open documents that contain SAS content that was generated with prior releases 2.1, 4.2, or 4.3.
For documents that were generated with the 2.1 release of the SAS add-in, refreshing the SAS content changes that content to the 5.1 format. Thereafter, the SAS content cannot be refreshed in the 2.1 release of the SAS add-in.
For documents that were generated with the 4.2 or 4.3 release of the SAS add-in, you can refresh the SAS content to the 5.1 format and then open the documents in the 4.2 or 4.3 version of the SAS add-in.
If you refresh a document from any previous release, and if you add new content in the 5.1 release, do not open the 5.1 document in any previous release.
Content that was generated in the 4.2 or 2.1 release must be refreshed before you can use the restore content functionality.
If you open content from the 4.2 release and the Show Preview Changes dialog box check box is selected on the Results tab in the SAS Options dialog box, then you can select what content to include in the results and what content to hide. However, because this is migrated content, the SAS add-in might not find the original results to know which content to hide. If the SAS add-in cannot find the original results, then all of the results are displayed.
To ensure that you are using the latest version of the data, refresh any data sources in your document before you use this data in the SAS Add-In 5.1 for Microsoft Office. For example, measures that were available to a PivotTable in the 4.3 release might not be available in the 5.1 release because you are connecting to a different server for the 5.1 release. When you refresh your data, any measures that no longer exist are removed from the PivotTable.
When you refresh a document from a previous release in the 5.1 release, you might notice that the style for the output has changed. To work around this problem:
  1. Before you refresh the content in 5.1, select the content in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, or Microsoft PowerPoint, and then click Properties.
  2. In the Properties dialog box, select the style that you want to use, and then refresh the content in 5.1.
To migrate multiple files or to remap references to metadata objects (such as servers, libraries, information maps, and stored processes), use the migration wizard. To run this wizard, double-click MigrationWizard.exe in the directory where you installed the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. After you open the wizard, click Help for more information about the migration options.