Numbers saved as strings in excel using report generation

I am using "Excel easy table.vi" to collect data from LabVIEW to excel. The problem is that the number array I read from LabVIEW, is stored as strings in excel. I want to save those as scientific numbers.
I have tried using "set cell format.vi", but it will not help me.
Can anyone help me?
Paul
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Hi Paul,
What did you use for the number format input ? Can you send your VI ?
It works perfectly fine for me :
Regards,
Da Helmut
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