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Delimiteddata: Excel Is Formatting Text Column As Scientific Notation (Doc ID 1502534.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 07, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Reports Developer - Version 11.1.1.4.0 and later
Oracle Forms for OCI - Version 12.2.1.4.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

 A report that has a VARCHAR2 field value.  Some of the values in the character field are 26E5 and 26E9.  Using desformat=delimiteddata. When  opening in Excel, those text values are converted to scientific notation. In PDF it displays it OK.

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