Stop download to Excel from converting string of digits & dashes into date

Hi,
How can I stop BI and Excel data from converting a column of string data that is comprised of numbers and dashes into a date format when it is downloaded into Excel?
I'd like to solve this problem in BI, so that any users can download the data from a BI report into Excel without having to change the Excel date column back into a string column.
Thanks,
Darcy

Hi Again Darcy,
hmmm... That is very interesting. I just tried on OBIEE 10.1.3.2 ( a version before yours) on Windows XP with Office 2003 and an Oracle 11g DB backend and it did not have any problems pulling the value as text and not a DATE
Can you try something for me? In a new report, add any old dimensional (year, month name, etc) field twice into the report and change the second column formula to be following: '7001-2'
Try to export that report and see if that value comes through as text or a date. If it is something about the SQL server data set, then the above test should come through as text object in your excel download because we aren't pulling it from SQL Server, we'll creating it directly in OBIEE. If the above test does come through as a date, then it should mean that SQL Server isn't the issue. And if that is the case, I am starting to wonder if there's a setting in Office to can be enabled/disabled to avoid any data casting.
Best regards,
-Joe

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