# export type has text format now as apposed to general when exporting as excel

**URL:** <https://forums.toadworld.com/t/export-type-has-text-format-now-as-apposed-to-general-when-exporting-as-excel/34521>\
**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/export-type-has-text-format-now-as-apposed-to-general-when-exporting-as-excel/34521 "2015-11-17T06:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![mf1375](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mf1375](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/mf1375)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/export-type-has-text-format-now-as-apposed-to-general-when-exporting-as-excel/34521/1 "2015-11-17T06:38:27Z")

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today is my first time with new TOAD 12.8.4.09. Now when I save a file as excel, it opens as a text not general as in the past. How do I change it back?

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**Author:** ![mf1375](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mf1375](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/mf1375)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/export-type-has-text-format-now-as-apposed-to-general-when-exporting-as-excel/34521/2 "2015-11-17T06:48:31Z")

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should have stated this is Toad for Oracle

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**Author:** ![mf1375](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mf1375](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/mf1375)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/export-type-has-text-format-now-as-apposed-to-general-when-exporting-as-excel/34521/3 "2015-11-17T07:26:36Z")

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after more digging it appears that the top row that has the column names is now “text” not “general” when I export it to excel. This is causing the VB script that I run to fail. I can not find anything to change it back

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**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/export-type-has-text-format-now-as-apposed-to-general-when-exporting-as-excel/34521/4 "2015-11-17T07:29:09Z")

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We upgraded our Excel-writer component to fix some bugs and it looks like this is changed. There is no setting you can change in Toad - but of course you can change the formatting in Excel.