Webi reports - Problem exporting to excel

HI,
I have exported a webi report as an excel file. The report contains a column with numeric values preceded by a dollar sign. After exporting to excel, i want to calculate the sum of the values in that column. However some cells show a numeric value, while some others show string value (i.e. text) because of which I am not being able to calculate the sum. Please help.

Hi there, 
Is the object that you are exporting with the dollar sign a string?  If so then this is normal because it is not numeric.  I tried the workflow in Excel and wen I try to apply a sum, it seems to change one of the values from string to numeric but this is within excel.  Maybe this is happening to you too.  In order to be able to add a calculation correctly, you need to change the object to a numeric.  You can do this by creating a new variable in webi, removing the $ and converting it to a numeric. For Ex:  "=ToNumber(Substr([dollar string object];2;10))".  Note, if you still want the $ to appear, you can use the format number feature.
Hope this helps!

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