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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Tips for Using the ODS Excel Destination](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
The SAS® Output Delivery System provides the ability to generate output in various destination formats (for example, HTML, PDF, and Excel). One of the more recent destinations, ODS Excel, became production in the third maintenance release for SAS 9.4 (TS1M3). This destination enables you to generate native Microsoft Excel formatted
![Visualization Spotlight: Visual Analytics Designer 7.3 Word Cloud](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/02/Visual-Analytics-Designer-7.3-Word-Cloud.png)
In this post I wanted to shed some light on a visualization you may not be using enough: the Word Cloud. Word association exercises can often be a fun way to pass the time with friends, or it can trigger immediate action – just think of your email inbox and
![Facial recognition: Monetizing faces in the crowd](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/02/shara-homepage-photo.jpg)
Editor's note: The following post is from Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity Pty Ltd. Shara is a featured speaker at SAS Global Forum 2017 and a globally acknowledged Keynote Speaker and widely regarded as one of the world’s Top Female Futurists. Learn more about Shara. In the movie Minority Report lead
![Truncating vs rounding SAS time values](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/02/Truncating-vs-rounding-SAS-time-values_01.jpg)
Small matters matter. Imagine saving (or spending wisely) just 1 second of your time every hour. One measly second! During your lifespan you would save or spend wisely (1 sec-an-hour * 24 hours-a-day * 365 days-a-year * 100 years) / (3600 seconds-an-hour * 24 hours-a-day) = 10 days, a whole
![Middle Tier Changes and Upgrades in SAS 9.4 M4](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
Since the SAS 9.4 M2 release in December 2014, there have been several refinements and updates to the middle tier that are of interest to installers and administrators. In this blog, I’m going to summarize them for you. What I’m describing here is available in the newest SAS release (9.4 M4). I’ll
![At SAS Global Forum, Content is King](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
I will begin with a short story. Like many employers, McDougall Scientific, my employer, requires its employees to review, with their co-workers and managers, what they learned at a conference or course. They are also asked to suggest applications of their learnings so that McDougall might realize value from the