Hi. I`m have a report that is exported to excel, the report is created using ireport 1.2.8. The excel output seems ok at first sight, but all numeric values are inside a cell with "general" format in excel. I want the numeric values to be formatted as number in excel as well, in ireport the corresponding values are bigdecimal. What I`ve done so far is check the is detect cell type in export options, but it didn`t help. Then I checked my jrxml manually and added (this property should probably have been there allready since I checked the detect cell type in Ireport, but it wasn`t there) But no luck, even when I added the property manually the xls output file still is formatting my bigdecimal values as general and not number. Any ideas? I have to use version 1.2.8. I will apreciate clarifying responses. Thanks. <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.detect.cell.type" value="true" />