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Problem Note 51691: SAS® VIEWTABLE does not display an Excel sheet that is accessed using a LIBNAME statement
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When you assign a LIBNAME statement to an Excel file using Windows SAS® 9.4 TS1M0 and 64-bit Excel, the individual sheet names might not show up in the SAS Explorer, and this error occurs:
The table libref."Sheet1$"n either does not exist or cannot be displayed. Would you like to
choose a different table to display?
For example, the error occurs when you submit libname x 'c:\myfiles\myfile.xlsx'; and then double-click any sheet name to open it in VIEWTABLE.
The problem is not with the Excel file itself. (The Excel data can be seen with the PRINT procedure and read into a SAS data set.) The problem occurs because the Excel sheet name contains the special character $, which is not allowed in SAS names. To circumvent the problem, submit options validmemname=extend; before opening a table in the VIEWTABLE.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||||