Problem Note 68476: The message "We found a problem with some content in filename.xlsx" might appear when you open a SAS generated XLSX file in Microsoft Excel
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The following error occurs when you open a SAS generated XLSX file in Excel:
This issue happens when you create the XLSX file using a FILEREF statement with a different ENCODING= option value from the SAS session encoding value. Here's an example:
/* SAS Session encoding is different from wlatin1, i.e. UTF-8 or CYRILLIC */
data x;
y=1;
run;
y=1;
run;
filename H "c:\temp\WontOpen.xlsx" encoding="wlatin1";
proc export
data=x
dbms=xlsx
outfile=H
replace;
run;
data=x
dbms=xlsx
outfile=H
replace;
run;
You must remove the ENCODING= option from the FILENAME statement to solve the problem.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
A fix for this issue for SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files 9.4_M7 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/J9M.html#68476
When you open a SAS generated XLSX file in Excel, this error might appear: "We found a problem with some content in filename.xlsx. Do you want us to try to recover as much as we can?"
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2021-10-07 12:04:28 |
| Date Created: | 2021-10-05 05:36:13 |