Hello,

I am using SAS (v9.1 on Windows) to write a series of datasets to a Microsoft Excel workbook with PROC EXPORT. Each dataset goes to a separate worksheet and currently there are 24. This is working fine.

The thing I don't like is that my Excel file does not size the columns to fully display the data. I don't want to go in manually and size the columns. Years ago I know I wrote a VBA macro to do this, which I called from SAS with DDE.

I am wondering if there is a better way to issue commands from SAS that will open the Excel file and autosize the columns in ALL worksheets in the workbook? Or is VBA macro and DDE the preferred method? Any suggestions are appreciated.

Jack

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