Thousand separator in MS Excel 2010

I recently upgraded to Microsoft Excel 2010 and I am having an issue in the formatting of my numbers. The thousands separator (comma in my country) is only being applied to the last thousand bucket but all other thousands above that are not being separated.
For example, 1,000,000 (one million) is being displayed as 10,00,000
I have read through hundreds of questions and answers in various forums but no one else seems to be having this issue. At my company, every person who has been transitioned to Excel 2010 is experiencing the same problem. I have tried searching and changing
settings, advanced settings as well, but nothing seems to work. Please help me.
I am a financial controller and my reports are very cumbersome when i cannot read the numbers easily.
Many thanks.
Kind regards,

1. In Windows 7 go to the Control Panel then click on:-
Clock, Language, and Region
In the:-
Region and Language
- section click on:-
Change the date, time, or number format
The:-
Region and Language
- window should open.
2. In the:-
Region and Language
- window click on the button called:-
Additional settings . . .
The:-
Customize Format
- window should open.
3. In the:-
Customize Format
- window click on the:-
Numbers
- tab (if it has not already been selected) then make the changes that you want.
On my pc (which is set up the way that you want it) the following are the settings:-
Decimal symbol: .
No. of digits after decimal: 2
Digit grouping symbol: ,
Digit grouping: 123,456,789
Negative sign symbol: -
Negative number format: -1.1
Display leading zeros: 0.7
List separator: ,
Measurement system: Metric
Standard digits: 0123456789
Use native digits: Never
Click:-
OK
EXCEL should now return to the window called:-
Region and Language
Click:-
OK

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Excel 2010 can see through the fakery and decides on it's own to "fix" the problem (which obviously isn't a problem since the paths are relative to begin with) by saving the paths as absolute paths instead. Yes, really clever, Excel. The exepected behavior
according to MSKB is that links are created as relative paths, so why does it change to absolute whenever Offline Files are involved? I know Offline Files only syncs, it doesn't actually change the files, so I can conclude that Excel is the program at fault
here. Is there a fix for this, or a known workaround? Because frankly, this bug makes it impossible for me to work in any advanced manner with linked Excel files. The sad thing is that this worked perfectly fine with Office 2003 and Windows XP. Is there a
patch for this problem that I might have missed (I am running the latest Service Pack and I get Office updates from Microsoft Update). If not, is there a workaround I can use to prevent Excel from corrupting my links when I edit the files offline?

Hello danceswithwindows,
Thank you for your post.
This is a quick note to let you know that we are performing research on this issue.
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How to export data from MS Project 2010 to MS Excel 2010 with formatting

I have created a Project 2010 export map to Excel 2010. It works fine. I have two questions that I cannot determine an answer. I'm not sure if its a project or excel setting. I have spend hours trying to make it
work with little success.
1. When the task name field is exported to excel it losses summary/task indent. Is there a way to set it up so it works via the export map?
2. The Start & Finish fields in project is setup as 5/26/11 when they exports to excel it shows up as 5/26/11 8:00 AM. Is there a way to set it up either in project export map or excel so its formated as a date field.
Excel's Format Cell function does not seem to work converting them back to just 5/26/11.
How can I keep the outlines and formatting in my data while exporting it to Excel.
I would appreciate any guidance.
Yogesh

Rameshchandra --
Two things I would recommend:
Do not add your question at the end of a post that is marked as Answered. In the future, please post your question as a new question so that everyone will notice it and be able to answer it.
Because this is a programming question, please repost your question as a new post in the Project Customization and Programming user forum at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/projectserver/en-US/home?forum=project2010custprog&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
Hope this helps.
Dale A. Howard [MVP]

How to reserve the page size when exporting to MS Excel 2010

Hello. I have a report which exports to MS Excel 2010. I applied the page size as legal in Crystal Report and would like to use the same page size in Excel
However, MS Excel print preview says the page size is letter.
How could I keep the same page size in Excel as I applied in Crystal Report. We have a lot of business reports and would like to avoid applying page setting manually in Excel when users print them out each time.
Thank you.

Hi Christine
I am in the process of writing a doc on the different options in CR and the "No Printer" option sis one of those. Seeing this post, made me wonder as this looked like a questionable behavior. My testing does not support your observations. Now, I did a very simple test;
Created a report, set "No Printer", set the paper size and legal orientation. Exported to XLS - any format, and the export maintained legal paper size in all instance. I did a few other variations, but I can never get the report to export anything other than Landscape.
Can you please let me know the version of CR you are using?
You may also want to attach the report here with saved data (to attach rename the rpt to txt, then in the reply hit on the "Use advanced editor" link and attach.
BTW.; I am using CR 2013.
- Ludek
Senior Support Engineer AGS Product Support, Global Support Center Canada
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