HTML to Excel: How can tell Excel to treat columns as numbers?

Question

I need to achieve the following when opening an HTML in Excel (Response.contentType=\"application/vnd.ms-excel\") :

• force Excel to consider conten

Answer 1

It doesn't works sometimes if you add it using a css class in that case try it using in Style to your TD. I did it for formatting a column to a text. like this

 style="mso-number-format:\@;"

For you it would be as

  mso-number-format:General