Date:         Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:06:55 -0800
Reply-To:     Dexter Road <dexter_road@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Dexter Road <dexter_road@YAHOO.COM>
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Subject:      Re: LEADING QUOTES IN EXCEL
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"Dirk Cosijn" <dirk.cosijn@pandora.be> wrote in message news:<%arU7.1654$a33.137@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>...
> Hi all,
>
> When exporting a sas datasets in V8 to excel 2000,
> single quotes are inserted before every
> character variable.

I had this problem while using proc export running 8.2 on Win NT.
I replaced proc export with proc dbload - and no quotes.
Here's my code:
proc dbload dbms=xls
            data=work.mydata;
            path="C:\my.xls";
            putnames Yes;
            reset all;
            load;
    run;
Will that work for you?

Tammie