Viewing and Editing SAS Data Sets

The VIEWTABLE window enables you to browse, edit, or create data sets. This window provides two viewing modes:

Table View: uses a tabular format to display multiple observations in the data set.
Form View: displays data one observation at a time in a form layout.

You can customize your view of a data set, for example, by sorting your data, changing the color and fonts of columns, displaying variable labels instead of variable names, or removing or adding variables. You can also load an existing DATAFORM catalog entry in order to apply a previously-defined variable, data set, and viewer attributes.

To view a data set, select the following:

Tools Table Editor
This brings up VIEWTABLE or FSVIEW (MVS and CMS only). You can also double-click on the data set in the Explorer window.

SAS files supported within the VIEWTABLE window are:

SAS data files
SAS data views
MDDB files.

For more information, see the online help for VIEWTABLE in base SAS.

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