I have a report that uses a single query as record source to generate a report.
I am exporting that report into Excel with following code
DoCmd.OutputTo ObjectType:=acOutputReport, ObjectName:=strReport, OutputFormat:=acFormatXLS, outputfile:=strpath & strTempFile, AutoStart:=False
All the data in the report is correct except for date, where date format is displayed as Genereal Number (Not sure which format)
Any help is appricaited.
Thanks.
Excel is displaying the date to you in the way excel 'sees it', rather than in a user friendly date format.
In excel, every date has a value that is a number. This allows excel to perform calculations/do things with dates (example - checking the days between two dates).
If you reformat your excel doc (right click on a random date and click format and then change to date) you'll probably find you have the correct date exported.
Probably haven't answered your question, but if you're just doing a data dump then you may not need to export the formatting (because you can just simply show the date in date format on your report).
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I have a PowerApp which is connected to Excel (OneDrive Business).
I want to write some Data to a table.
The problem are the DateTime.
If I choose for example "07.03.2021 01:00" in the DatePicker/TimePicker the "correct?" format is created für the Update-Field (I didn't change anything in the Update Formula).
But in Excel is a funny number written: 1615075200000
I tryed to format the cells in Excel as Datetime, number, text ... before writing to the cell/table nothing helps.
For some times (see ID's 1-8 in Excel screenshot) there was a datetime wrote, I don't know why.
What I have to change that the right datetime will be written to Excel, and the datetime should be displayed in excel as "07.03.2021 01:00"
I believe it's excel cells date-time format.
I am doing exactly as your example and the date-time updated in excel with the correct format.
Please check the below screenshots
Can you verify the Excel sheet date format?
So I am exporting some information as excel document.
The issue I'm facing is that in Excel the actual data field containing the date is recognised as general data and I would like it to be recognised as Date.
If I double-click on the date field and click outside of it, only then it will convert it to Date.
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The first 2 fields in the second image are Date format(after double-clicking on them).
How can I make this by default so the user will have the data as Excel Date without having to do anything.
This is how I am formatting the date to my requirments:
item.documentDate = new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-US');
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
I have a datetimestamp field in SSRS, when I preview the report the data looks okay (2015-06-23 1:33:00 PM), but when I export the report to excel it creates ############### and not showing the date time. The dataset is done in SQL query cast(m.CallTime as datetime). What I want to happen is to display just the time in SSRS and Excel (1:30 PM). Thanks.
I've always had issues with the Excel export with date formats but I think that's more due to Excel propensity to guess wrong at the format I want. Why is it whenever I have a date with no time, it usually is formatted as time only (0:00)? Very annoying.
Make sure that your date is in a date format. You casted it in your query but you could also use CDATE to do it in SSRS.
Set the format using the Textbox's FORMAT Property to hh:mm tt .
It should come out as specified in Excel.
I have an excel report which is generated from the web application.
In that report I need to place "(01/25/2013) Control", it's getting from a database query. I can't change the database query.
I want to change the date format as dd/mm/yyyy with including text like "(25/01/2013) Control", but my query gives date in mm/dd/yyyy format.
Please help me regarding above one.
One option would be to format the cell in the following way
Custom Number Format
"("dd/mm/yyyy") Control"
I'm trying to export a SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services report to Excel. The report has a column of dates. The date is stored as a datetime in the SQL server.
The language of the report is set to =User!Language, the format of the date-cell is d.
When exporting/rendering the report to PDF, everything is displayed in the locale of the request made by the browser (Accept-Language).
When rendering to Excel however, the format suddenly changes, for example, to General ([$-10409]M.T.JJJJ) (German Excel, locale of the OS set to de-AT, browser-locale is en-US).
This means that the Excel displays dates in a completely wrong format - the sequence of day, month and year is hardcoded and only the separator comes from the current locale. This makes sharing reports between different OS languages almost impossible since a report generated from a d-m-yyyy country will still display as day-month-year in a country with different date formatting (and vice versa). So any person expecting a m/d/yyyy formatted date will get d/m/yyyy.
This is especially dangerous if there are no dates with days above 12 - ie: it is very likely to misread the displayed date because there is no obvious error.
When manually setting the cell-format in Excel to date, everything seems fine and the format changes with the locale of the OS.
Is there any possibility to force the cell to be formatted as Date in Excel without having to edit the Excel file itself?
P.S: numbers are also not formatted as a number but as [$-10409]#.##0,00;-#.##0,00 - which is less of an issue but still potentially a source of errors. (format in the report is N2)
I've manages to solve similiar issue. Solution is rather simple.
In report editor, open Design view and select field, which you want to edit, right mouse click and choosee either Expression or Textbox properties. The rest is very intuitive as in Excel editor.