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gw2006
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When reporting in EXL2K how do you get the data to not display the green flag and store numeric data correctly?

Thanks in advance.
 
Posts: 6 | Registered: June 07, 2006Report This Post
jimster06
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Generally when you print a numeric field it displays properly in Excel.

Could you post an example? Tell us what the format is of the field you are sending to Excel.
 
Posts: 252 | Location: USA | Registered: April 15, 2003Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Is this happening to alpha fields that contain numerics?


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Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
Sridevi
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Me too facing the same problem . As Francis has asked for , the green flag appears when an alpha field contain numerics.

Any solution for this?


Thanks & Regards,
Sridevi
Webfocus 7.6.5 | Windows |
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Posts: 36 | Location: India | Registered: October 06, 2005Report This Post
venu
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This depends on the error checking configuration in Excel at the client.
From webfocus side one thing that can be done is change the field format to numeric. So numbers are interpreted appropriately in Excel. However if the field format has to be 'TEXT' in Excel, I don't think any thing can be done from webfocus. User has to change his configuration in excel or alternately opt to choose "Ignore error" for all such cells. Interestingly VBA also doesn't seem to have a method to supress this error check for specific cells!
 
Posts: 38 | Location: India | Registered: May 18, 2005Report This Post
<JG>
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This was a very irritating feature introduced by Microsoft who decided that numbers
are not legal text items.

There are only two options available

1 Either, manually change the option setting under error checking. (tools/options/error checking)
2 If using 7.1 use a template to set the option for you.

Option 2 is probably the best as it does not require user action.

The macro code required is very simple

Sub Macro1()
Application.ErrorCheckingOptions.NumberAsText = False
End Sub
 
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venu
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But the problem with this macro is, this will be applicable to all the other excel files which are open/will be opened
 
Posts: 38 | Location: India | Registered: May 18, 2005Report This Post
<JG>
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macros come in many flavors.

the example would be used as an open macro

the same code but using true as it's value as a close macro
totally resolves the issue of Microsoft excels inability to have an option
apply to the current sheet only.
 
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