I have a SQL Reporting Services report which contains monetary values, shown without the currency symbol (ie. 1,234.56). I export this report to Excel and, should I then choose to re-format these as currency values, and press the "Currency" format button, I get "$ 1,234.56".
Ok... except I'm in the UK and my regional settings specify "£" as the currency symbol. If I just fire up Excel, type in 1234.56 and hit the currency format button, I get "£ 1,234.56" - so it doesn't appear to be the default settings for Excel.
I looked more carefully at the exported Excel sheet and noticed that the values are formatted with a "Custom" format, specifically "[$-1010809]#,##0.00;(#,##0.00)". I'm not sure what the "1010809" is (see here). (This may not be related)
It turns out that the "Currency" button applies the "Accounting" format, but that, in the spreadsheet exported from SSRS, is a custom format of "("$"* #,##0.00);("$"* (#,##0.00);("$"* "-"??);(@_)". This presumably accounts for the dollar symbol.
Is there not a way to have the exported spreadsheet not use "custom" US dollar formats for currency values ? I have looked at the report and tried to find some setting or property that says "English (US)" or something similar, but found nothing.
