formatting issues for excel

hi,

I have a column of numbers which export fine to excel when i use the formatting '$0'.

If any of the values in the column = 0 i dont want them to show so i added this line to the value =iif(Fields!Budget.Value = 0, "", Fields!Budget.Value). This works fine except when i export to excel it now doesnt read them as values and you have to convert all the cells individually. I guess this is becuase i have substituted the string "" when the data = 0 and excel does the formatting for the whole column not each cell individually. What should i do so it exports to excel correctly? Is there another way to show nothing in a cell and it still registers as a number?

geoff

WHat about Nothing rather than "" ?

=iif(Fields!Budget.Value = 0, Nothing, Fields!Budget.Value).

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

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