SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![People using smartphones while driving - the numbers are in!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/04/distracted_driving-2-702x336.png)
You're sitting in a line of cars at the intersection, waiting for the light to change - when it finally turns green, the 2nd car just sits there for several seconds until someone honks at them, and then they scoot through the light ... but everyone behind them has to
![How to control the name of Excel sheets when they are all created at once](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/04/BYstatement-623x336.png)
Ok, so you know how to create multiple sheets in Excel, but can anyone tell me how to control the name of the sheets when they are all created at once? In the ODS destination for Excel, the suboption SHEET_INTERVAL is set to TABLE by default. So what does that
![Your mapping toolkit tip #5 - determine which sales region your customers are in](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/04/mapping_5_tip-702x336.png)
A new prospective customer enters their personal information on your web page, and they want to have a sales rep contact them ... but you need to know which sales region they're in, so you can assign them to a sales team. Now, multiply that by thousands of prospective customers!
![Airlines involuntarily bumping passengers off flights - let's look at the data...](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/04/airline_denied_boarding_rate_2016-1-702x336.png)
You've probably all seen the images of the passenger being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight, to make room for airline staff flying on standby. The incident caused quite a bit of negative publicity, and quickly wiped out a quarter billion $ of the airline's market value. But did
![Your mapping toolkit tip #4 - importing maps into SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/04/mapping_4_tip1-702x336.png)
SAS provides a map for each country, but there are likely other maps you want to use that SAS does not provide. If you have other maps in the Esri shapefile format, you're in luck - you can import those maps and use them! In this blog post I share
![What’s your SAS interface?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/08/littlesasbookexercises.jpg)
I recently asked a SAS user, “Which interface do you use for SAS?” She replied, “Interface? I just install SAS and use it.” “You’re using the SAS windowing environment,” I explained, but she had no idea what I was talking about. This person is an extremely sophisticated SAS user who