title: Pasting numbers with comma as thousand separator from business objects to excel
body: <p>When doing Edit -> Copy all from BOBJ XI 3.1 report to excel, numbers with comma as thousand separator are being treated as text in Excel. </p>
  
  <p>Has anyone come across this issue? </p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Don't know if this sample of data is any useful, but here it is: </p>
  
  <p>18,734.04
  12,489.36
  0.00
  0.00
  1,673.73
  1,115.82</p>
  
  <p>All the numbers greater that 999.00, i.e. with comma as a thousand separator, are getting formatted as "General" with small green triangle next to them offering several option of how to treat the value in the cell. </p>