Scientific Notation when Downloading Reports

When downloading reports from a web template, in either Excel or CSV, some values are getting converted to scientific notation in the downloaded file. I am wondering if there is a setting which prevents any data to be converted to scientific notation when downloading. The data appears to be fine when viewing the report in Web.

Hi Ripel
You have downloaded the file to CSV which is also excel based format and uses most of the Excel's features, and when data is CSV file is in scientic foirmat , same will come in notepad..just do one thing select the format as number in the csv file by selecting column...and save it...in csv/notepad you will now see actual value
Thanks
Tripple k

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