You might try this; I've used it for exactly the purpose of getting summary stats into a tab-delimited format which Excel reads quite easily.

data _null_; set in; /* Name your SAS dataset here */ file 'c:\excel.txt'; /* The output file */ put var1 '09'x var2 '09'x var3 '09'x; /* '09'x is a TAB char */ run;

Something like that should do it for you.

Cheers,

Dave.

In article <33E11622.60E2@cica.es>, Manuel Garcia-Ayuso <mgayuso@cica.es> wrote: >Hello, there, > >I am a SAS beginner and this is my first time in comp.soft-sys.sas, so >sorry if my question is too naive. > >Can anyone tell me if it is possible to save a SAS dataset in ascii >format so that it can be retrieved with Excel or handled with some >other statistical package/languaje? > >Thanks in advance, > > >Manuel. > > > >Manuel Garcia-Ayuso >Department of Accounting >University of Seville

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