Crystal Reports XI: formatting and exporting to Excel (VB 6)

Question

Hi.
I have a VERY simple report that all I want it to do is display the numbers from a table EXACTLY as formatted and be able to export them to Excel, as NUMBER (not STRINGS).
Example:
My fields may contains the following values in a single column:
45.02
0.04454
215
And I want them to be displayed as entered in the source table.
Initially, to maintain the formatting, I set the field's data type to a STRING.
The problem is that when I then export the data to Excel, all the numerical values are treated as TEXT and we need to "Convert Text to Numbers".
When I changed the field's data type to a DOUBLE, the data in the table is correct, but the report formats all the numbers in one way.  I want to be able to retain the formatting of the field (as-is) but have them exported as numbers, rather than text.
Can this be done?
Please advise!
Thanks.
AK

Answer 1

I actuallly found my answer elsewhere (http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1235276&page=4).
The Decimal formattion (x=2) for the fields can be set as follows:
If CurrentFieldValue = Int(CurrentFieldValue) Then 0Else If CurrentFieldValue * 10 = Int(CurrentFieldValue * 10) Then 1
Else If CurrentFieldValue * 100 = Int(CurrentFieldValue * 100) Then 2
Else If CurrentFieldValue * 1000 = Int(CurrentFieldValue * 1000) Then 3
Else If CurrentFieldValue * 10000 = Int(CurrentFieldValue * 10000) Then 4
Else If CurrentFieldValue * 100000 = Int(CurrentFieldValue * 100000) Then 5
Else If CurrentFieldValue * 1000000 = Int(CurrentFieldValue * 1000000) Then 6
ElseDefaultAttribute
Basically - this works.
Hope this helps someone else!
Thanks.
AK