Symptom
- Expotential numbers displays in MS Excel.
- When exporting a report to CSV format from Crystal Reports, that contains a database field or formula field of data type string that contains a value like: 2E158, the string value is read as being a numeric field and returned as a exponential value like: 2.00E+158 in MS Excel.
- How can you export a report to CSV format without having a string field being converted to a numeric field and thus displaying the value incorrectly as an exponential value?
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Environment
- SAP Crystal Rpeorts 2013
- SAP Crystal Reports 2016
- SAP Crystal Reports 2020
Product
SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2016 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2020
Keywords
CSV COMMA SEPARATED VALUES EXPORT EXPONENTIAL STRING EXPORTING Seagate Crystal Reports exporting to CSV returning exponential values , c2008338, CR , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem
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