Problem Note 33463: Blanks might be appended to data exported as .xls using SAS® Enterprise Guide
Exporting a SAS table as a Microsoft Excel file (.xls) using SAS Enterprise Guide might cause the resulting data to have blanks appended to the end. For example, if the length of a column is 50 in a SAS table, but the longest data value for that column is only 10, then, when the file is exported as a .xls file and opened in Microsoft Excel, the data will have 40 blanks appended to the end.
To circumvent the problem, export the data from SAS Enterprise Guide as a .csv file, then open the .csv file using Microsoft Excel.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS Enterprise Guide | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2008-10-03 11:02:50 |
| Date Created: | 2008-09-29 14:41:17 |
