Format-number not working for me with preview to excel

Hi,
I have a report with 8 fields across within a table.
Each field is formatted in the same way, with format-number like this (there are 8):
<?format-number:total-year-remaining;’PT999G999D99’?>
(that's the type-your-own form-field help text in the word template).
When I preview the PDF, the data looks fine (8 cells shown below):
.00 (.10) (.10) .00 (.50) (.50) (.60) (.60)
But when previewing to Excel, there are two problems:
1. Only the data in the last field (the 8th one) is formatted with the oracle mask:
(.60)
But upon closer inspection, there are two blank spaces after the number in that cell, and the value itself is treated like a string, e.g. '(.60) '. In fact if I ask excel to format this cell like a number with currency and two decimal places, in won't do it because of trailing spaces. Its just not a number to excel at that point. Probably the ('s don't help things either.
2. The data in the first seven fields in excel are numeric, and I can format them in excel as currency, but I wanted XMLP to handle this, not the excel user.
The bottom line is this: I want both PDF and excel output. I want both forms to have the fomat mask applied correctly. And I want excel to treat each cell as a number. Is this possible?
Thanks
Adam

Anatoli,
Hello!
I don't know if my situation is the same as yours, but after a lot of head-scratching, forum searching and template rebuilding, I finally figured out my problem.
I had one column that no matter what I did kept appearing in Excel as text. I'd format it to Number in Excel and nothing. When trying to sum the column, Excel would not recognize any of the values as numbers. I even did the reformatting on the XML Word template to number, and the currency format that Adam mentions. Still no go. The $ and ',' appeared, but column still formatted as string.
I just finally noticed Adam's mention of the 2 extra spaces at the end of the numbers and sure enough mine was doing the same thing. Take out the 2 spaces and voila! Number!
Every time I redid my template in Word (07 and 03), I used the wizard. (Add-ins>Insert>Table>Wizard) walked through the steps, not really changing anything. Then I would preview and the spaces would be there. The column that I was having problems with was the last column of the table, which would get the text 'end G_ASSIGNED_CC' inserted in after the field name - separated by 2 spaces. Once I took out these two spaces, so the column now shows 'COSTend G_ASSIGNED_CC', it worked fine in Excel - all numbers.
Hope that helps someone out there as I was having a heck of a time finding anything (solutions anyway) on this.
Thanks,
Janel

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