Converting the number to a floating point is an improvement. Often Excel converts long numbers to dates!
It should be fairly simple using Perl (or Python or Ruby etc.) to generate an Excel file (or convert a CSV to an Excel file) with the correct types, and even some fancy formatting. On 01/06/07 11:58 Anton Berezin wrote: > The attachments are opened in Excel - by default - and the user sees > > something something else 1.234E15
