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Post Author: Horizon57
CA Forum: General
I am having an issue where I have tables of data in Access with the correct formatting (i.e. $, %, etc.) and when I create a table or graph in Crystal Reports, the formatting does not show up. Something that is 46.78% in Access, shows up in the following format (0.47) and dollar signs ($$) do not even show up. I am sure its not just a display issue with the data, because when I right click on a field in the field explorer and select the "Browse Data" option, the formatting is also missing in the same way that it is missing once that data is brought onto the report itself.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix this issue? I would like to avoid having to apply specific formatting to each field in each subreport using Crystal Reports (That could take hours!)
Thanks

I have sometimes also reproduced this behaviour without waiting these 3 minutes (more or less immediately).
In addition, after reproducing this behaviour, the fileds becomes read only and you can not write any more data in it. ¿?

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