Corrupted Excel files might be created with either the ODS destination for Excel or the ExcelXP tagset.  This is most likely to occur when the files are created in a Unicode (also called UTF-8) SAS^® session in the fifth maintenance release of SAS^® 9.4 (TS1M5).  When these corrupted files are generated, they cannot be opened because of an incorrect tagging structure in the resulting XML file.  The ODS destination for Excel generates a native Excel file (.xlsx) and the ExcelXP tagset generates an XML file.

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A fix for this issue for Threaded Kernel National Language Support 9.4_M5 is available at: