Oftentimes, lines wrap because the linesize or font is not sized properly. The default for the fixed-width font is 6.7pt. This fits LS=132 on portrait letter paper, which is the narrowest commonly used paper size.

To troubleshoot your problem, first look at the listing output. The DATA step passes data to ODS as it appears in the listing. So if the listing output is wrapping, you can increase the linesize (up to a maximum of 256) so the DATA step passes the line as one piece of output to ODS, rather than multiple pieces.

If the above doesn't solve your problem, check to see whether you are passing a lot of trailing blanks. If the lines that are wrapping have blank spaces at the end, the output might look double-spaced, but it's just due to the blank spaces wrapping. To solve this problem, you can try decreasing the linesize so the wrapped blanks don't look like double spacing.

If none of the above applies to your problem, try decreasing the font size.

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