On Apr 8, 1:08 pm, chumba <vikas.dharamsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 8, 1:03 pm, Mark Roosen <mark.roo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > pure csv files will not color anything, it is just plain text file. > > You are talking about "coloring cells", do you wants to import > > this data (csv) into Excel ? > > a little more information will helps to receive relevant answers > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values > > > regards Mark > > > On Apr 8, 9:16 am, chumba <vikas.dharamsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I work on unix SAS, I run my progs through the back end using Putty. > > > > I need to colour cells of an exported csv according to some criteria > > > on the data. > > > > Can anyone help me out with this please. > > > > Thanks in advance- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for the reply, I can conver the csv to excel. > > Now I believe once can color cells using DDE, I tried to import my > excel file using this, > > filename test dde 'excel|/aodev/vik/test.xls'; > > not sure if the syntax is correct, it gives me a invalid data error. > > Any insights would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -

Just found out DDE cant be used for UNIX , only WINDOWS, how unfair

Anyways any help still would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks