SAS For Dummies

Chapter 13

Supercharge Microsoft Office with SAS

In This Chapter

Merging SAS with Microsoft Office for fantastic power

Diving into the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

Checking out SAS server data from Office

Viewing analysis from Office

Ending spreadsheet hell

Sharing your SAS and Office content

The SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office (shortened to the add-in in this chapter) is an application from SAS that appears inside Microsoft Office applications, both from the menu and also from toolbars in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The add-in is part of the SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server offerings. The add-in relies on the architecture in Office that allows other applications to integrate in the Microsoft Office environment, called the Add-In model. Hence, the name! You can use all the Office formatting and layout features with content you create using the add-in!

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