title: Excel does not recognize number cell after import from SQL
body: <p>I have an SQL table (well, stored procedure to be exact), which has values like this:</p>
  
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  <p>I import this data in Excel as:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Data -> From Other Sources -> From SQL -> ... do the trick with
    editing the SQL statement of the connection to look into the stored
    procedure instead of View/Table -> Import Data -> Table</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This works fine. The data is imported as:</p>
  
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  <p>Issue is, I can't <code>SUM</code> or <code>Average</code> (or any other math function for that matter) on those values! Something is wrong with them. When I copy such cell into another sheet I see this:</p>
  
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  <p>Excel does not recognize the field as a number. I have naturally tried the Cell -> Format -> Number/Accounting/Whatever... no success.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas</p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <p>Why isn't the following working:</p>
  
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