Date:         Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:23:39 GMT
Reply-To:     Mark Brinkley <nospam@ABC.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mark Brinkley <nospam@ABC.COM>
Organization: Cox Communications
Subject:      Macro variables and X command

 I use a macro variable to identify the name of the Excel file.  For
 example,

 %LET XLSFILE  = c:\myfile.xls;

 I use the following command to start Excel from within SAS:

 X "START &XLSFILE";


 As is, these statements work fine.

 I would like to modify the xls filename to include spaces, like so:

 %LET XLSFILE  = c:\my file.xls;

But now
 X "START &XLSFILE";
doesn't work.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?  I've tried quotes around my macro
variable
but this doesn't work.
I'm running Win2000 and sas 8.2

Thanks.