The SAS Universal Viewer is a replacement for the SAS System Viewer, and it is available with Base SAS. The SAS Universal Viewer is an application for the Windows environment to view SAS data sets and other simple text-based files. You cannot edit SAS data sets with the SAS Universal Viewer, but you can sort and filter data sets. The SAS Universal Viewer enables you to view the contents of SAS data sets without invoking SAS and without installing SAS on your machine.

To view a SAS data set, drag and drop the data set icon onto a SAS Universal Viewer icon or onto an existing instance of the Viewer.

With the SAS Universal Viewer you can view the following files:

• SAS data sets
• SAS v9 transport files
• text files, including .sas, .txt. log, and so on
• .html and other file types that open in Internet Explorer
• SAS data sets that were created on platforms other than Windows

You can rearrange your view of the data in the following ways:

• sort your view of a SAS data set by column
• subset the data by using a WHERE clause
• resize columns
• copy data elements to the clipboard
• find text in a SAS data set by using expressions to filter rows and columns