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Hi
I have a simple analysis, a couple of measures, some formatted so tat if they are negative show them as Red, minus, 1 decimal and thousand separator. Another measure is not formatted to be Red, just black, minus, 1 decimal and thousand separator.
So ... now to the issue. When I export to Excel 2003 the measures are fine, the numbers are numbers, all fine and dandy.
When I export to Excel 2007+ ... the red minus numbers are now text and impossible to change them all to number. I can only convert to number those that are less than 1000 ... the rest are just impossible.
The other measures, the ones that are black, minus, 1 decimal and thousand separator ... are numbers in Excel 2007+.
Why?
What can I do to solve this?
Kind Regards

Sorry guys ... forgott to say that I'm not the one exporting to Excel ... is my business user and I cannot ask them to save the reports to another format or to cast a column or more?
I will try them both and see what happens ... but this is something that Oracle must fix. It's the year 2013 for godness sake!! This is not a Beta software. In my opinion this is so ridiculous I can hardly find words for it hahahaha
I have tried to cast and convert ... well that doesn't work and I found that some people are using macros to convert text to numbers in Excel ...
Sub txttonum()
For Each tcell In Selection.Cells
If TypeName(tcell.Value) = "String" Then
tcell.Value = Val(tcell.Value)
End If
Next
End Sub
As goes for the CSV option ... I just cannot ask my business user to copy from a CSV file to the Excel file they want to work on, not even if they are advanced Excel users.
Thanks for your suggestions, I really that the cast would work ...
Any other suggestion.

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