Downloading interactive report to CSV

Hi There,
We are on apex 3.1.2.00.02. I have two questions...
1. The interactive reports have a - (dash) in the columns with null. So when we download to excel the dash is still there... the user wants null. I can not find where it's been defined to put this dash in the report. Can someone help me figure out how to make this truly null?
2. When we download the report in a csv format, it automatically opens in Excel (which we want); the tab name in Excel is something like... .csv]daily_bank_definition(1) If we try to rename the tab we get an Excel error about invalid naming format even if the new name is "valid". Is there a way to have the tabname set to what you want? Has anyone else seen this issue and have you been able to get around it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Kristina

Hi Kristina,
To remove the dash from null columns you need to go into the Report Attributes and under Pagination you will see 'Show Null Values as '. Just remove the - from there.
In order to change the tab name to what you want you will have to save the csv file first and remove the [1] from the name. You should then be able to change it.
Regards
Paul

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