Problem exporting to excel - thousandseparator and percentages

edited 6:09PM in FastReport 4.0
Hi,

I am trying to export a report to excel, but whenever I do the export, excel does not use the formatting I have in my report

1. Thousand separator
My numbers are formated with %2.2n and I am using the char ' . ' as the thousand separator. On my printed report, everything works fine.
But when I export to excel, the thousands separator is ignored

2. Percentages with 1 decimal
I have a few percentages that I want to show only 1 decimal point. I am using the format #.#% and in my printed report,everything works fine.
But when I export to excel, I always get 2 decimal points.

Is there anything else I need to do to force excel to use the formating that I am using with fast reports and not it's own default formatting?
What is the best way to garantee that the data appears correctly in excel?

I have been banging my head against the wall and can't find the solution for this.
Any help would be apreciated.
Thanks!

Comments

  • edited 6:09PM
    So... any ideas? I'm still stuck on this one :|

    Thanks.
  • edited 6:09PM
    Hello,

    Could you attach an example fp3 report in order I can check the issue and fix it?
  • edited April 2011
    Draeden wrote: »
    Hello,

    Could you attach an example fp3 report in order I can check the issue and fix it?


    Hi, I am sending the fp3 file.
    In this specific case, you can find the errors I reported:

    1. The report shows the thousand separator correctly, but when exported to excel it does not show the separator
    2. The percentages have 1 decimal value, but when exported excel shows 2 decimal points

    For some reason I can't seem to upload the file, so I'm pasting the content of the fp3 file here.

    Thank you for the help.

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  • edited 6:09PM
    Sorry, but I cannot open this file. Please send this bugreport to support[at]fast-report[dot]com (with the fp3 file) and after it's redirected to me, I'll be able to consider it.

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