In reply to Long Time SAS user.

I'm sorry to hear that your work environment has limited your choice of tools. Because EG is simply a client app that connects to SAS and your data, support for interaction with PC tools can be limited. For example, it's why you can't use DDE in SAS to interact with Excel when SAS is on a server. That's not an EG limitation per se; it's a result of an IT policy to centralize the compute and data server away from desktop computers. With cloud computing upon us, this "separation of concerns" is only going to grow, and having everything (data, applications, and compute power) colocated on a desktop PC will become more rare in big enterprises. I'll admit it: I sometimes struggle with this new way of working -- but it's where we're headed.