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When I Export some reports to Excel numeric data appears as "TEXT" and I  have to convert this to a number, is there any way to avoid this, is there a missing setup or parameter?

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Thanks in advance.

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    MahGah 15,433 on at
    RE: Exporting to Excel

    Hi 

    Unfortunately, seems like this is the only option. But I agree with you that numbers should be number. My suggestion is 

    1) Submit your idea here (or if you want I can do that) https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/categories/list/?category=54db8819-83ed-e611-8105-5065f38a3bb1&forum=e288ef32-82ed-e611-8101-5065f38b21f1

    2) or I hope one of Microsoft employee here can bring this up to there team ( Marco Mels Andy Sather  and ... )

    Thanks 

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    MarisolC 60 on at
    RE: Exporting to Excel

    this reports come naturally from analysis views (sales, inventory, purchases) nothing programmed here. Do I really need to change this with some coding?

    :(

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    YUN ZHU 75,595 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Exporting to Excel

    Hi, If you are developing with Excel Buffer, you can define the Cell Type when exporting.

    Cell type:
    More details: https://yzhums.com/4180/

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    Hope this will help.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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    MahGah 15,433 on at
    RE: Exporting to Excel

    Hi

    I am in SaaS version. Below answer is for SaaS. I heard this is possible in On-prem through Excel Buffer or similar method (https://www.sauravdhyani.com/2021/07/business-central-14-export-to-excel.html

    I asked this questions before and the only answer I received is 1) I need to add Excel Buffer to report page 2) modify report layout. Hence, I never moved forward with either of them. 

    Recently Microsoft revealed the plan to add Excel Report layouts to reports. Lets hope this can be used for this purpose. 

    docs.microsoft.com/.../users-use-excel-design-layouts-reports

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