Trouble with Excel Formating Numbers treated as text by Excel - Sample output attached

• Welsh Corgi

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  December 8, 2011 at 6:35 am

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  Hi SSIS Experts,

  I populate sever worksheets in a workbook from SQL Server.

  All of the numeric columns in excel have a green arrow in the top right hand corner.

  It interprets it as a text field and it gives you the option of clicking on each cell and convert to a number.

  I have attached Sample output.

  It list the following as action to be taken and I have done all of that and a lot more.

  I have CAST as a INT. Set the Data Types in the Data Conversion Task to a signed integer, formatted the Excel columns as numeric.

  I'm having no luck.:crying:

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  December 8, 2011 at 9:53 am

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  Any ideas?:hehe:

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  December 8, 2011 at 3:35 pm

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  I had the same problem with the phone & fax fields until I formatted them as (XXX) XXX-XXXX.

  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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  December 9, 2011 at 7:14 am

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  Why is there an entire Excel manual in your post? I'm not really going to be bothered by reading it all...

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  December 9, 2011 at 7:25 am

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  Koen Verbeeck (12/9/2011)

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  Why is there an entire Excel manual in your post? I'm not really going to be bothered by reading it all...

  It is not exactly a manual but if you click to the right of a cell with an error it pops up the help text.

  I removed it.

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