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Problem Note 30810: DBCS characters lost after copying SAS Report output from SAS® Enterprise Guide® into Microsoft Excel
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When copying SAS Report output from SAS Enterprise Guide and pasting it into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, DBCS characters might be lost. This can happen if you select the SAS Report output, select CTRL-C or right-click and choose Copy to copy the output, and then paste the output into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. When doing so, the DBCS characters will display as garbage characters in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Possible workarounds include the following:
- creating HTML output in SAS Enterprise Guide and copying and pasting the HTML output to Excel.
- while viewing the SAS Report output, select File -> Export -> Export SAS Report - task name and save the output as an HTML output. Then open the HTML file in Microsoft Excel.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Enterprise Guide | Windows | 4.1 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 4.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 4.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| WINDOWS/NTSV | 4.1 | |||||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 4.1 | |||||
| Windows Vista | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||