When sending stored process results from SAS Enterprise Guide to Microsoft Excel, Excel uses the SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office to interpret and display those results. When the results are displayed, some of the formatting might be lost. Typically, the affected columns contain numeric values that include leading zeros and some date values. This problem occurs because Excel interprets the values as numeric before they are displayed.

To circumvent this issue, you must add a line to your SAS Add-In configuration file using the following steps:

1. Close all Microsoft Office applications on the client machine.
2. Install the latest hot fix for the SAS Add-In. The link can be found on the Hot Fix tab in this SAS Note.
3. Create a file named SAS.OfficeAddin.dll.config and place it in the installation folder for the SAS Add-In. The default location is usually something like c:\Program Files\SAS\Add-InForMicrosoftOffice\4.3\.
4. Edit the SAS.OfficeAddin.dll.config and add the following lines:

   <configuration>
       <assemblySettings>
            <add key="AllowExcelToInterpretValueType" value="false"/>
       </assemblySettings>
   </configuration>
   

   If this file already exists and the configuration and assemblySettings tags already exist, just add the add key tag above inside the assemblySettings tag.
5. Save the file.
6. Launch SAS Enterprise Guide again and send your results to Excel.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 4.305 for SAS 9.3 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 4.3 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 4.305 is available at: