When you open an information map in SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office, the default value for the EXPCOLUMNLEN option is 32.

Note: For more information about the EXPCOLUMNLEN option, see the Base SAS^® Guide to Information Maps. A link is available on the SAS Information Map Studio Product Documentation page. Look under Related Documentation for your release of SAS^®.

Beginning in SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 and SAS Add-In 5.1 for Microsoft Office, you can override this default with a configuration option. The latest hot fixes must be applied.

For the SAS add-in, you create a text file named SAS.OfficeAddIn.dll.config and place it in the SAS add-in installation directory. The file should contain the following content, where the value is your preferred length.

For SAS Enterprise Guide, you add the InfoMapExpressionColumnLength option to the appSettings section of the seguide.exe.config. This file is located in the SAS Enterprise Guide installation directory. Here is an example of the length set to 100.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 5.1 is available at: