You may need to transfer data from SAS to a spreadsheet program or some other program. For example, you may want to make a color graphics plot of your data with a spreadsheet. (SAS can do this, but the SAS graphics language is very difficult to learn.) Newer versions of SAS have the capability to automatically export datasets in files that can be recognized by some spreadsheets, such as dBASE and Microsoft Excel. However, this requires the installation of several optional SAS functions, and you may not have these on your system.