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

UPDATE: You also need to remove non-breaking spaces (nbsp's) from td cells containing numeric or money information to make formulas work on these cells in Excel. So the problem is solved.