Thousands separator in excel

Thousands separator in excel

sandropsandrop Posts: 1Questions: 1Answers: 0
edited March 2020 in Free community support

Hello, I have a number in the table on the following format 262,649.4, but when I export it into excel, excel reads the number as string, how is it possible to convert comma to dot after exporting to excel?262,649.4 => 262.649.4
Thank you, regards

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  • rf1234rf1234 Posts: 2,946Questions: 87Answers: 416

    "262.649.4"
    is invalid: you can't have two decimal points in a number and / or your thousands separator may not be the same as your decimal point.

    There are so many posts on this in this forum. Did you use @allan's excellent search function?
    Take a look at this thread please:
    https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/164990/#Comment_164990

    In a nutshell: send 262649.4 to Excel and it should work ...

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