CLM Report Exports: Export numeric columns as actual number values in Excel (not text)

When exporting a CLM report to Excel, numeric columns (e.g. contract Value) are exported as text instead of numbers. Excel only recognizes the value as a number after manually double-clicking into each cell. This behavior also interacts poorly with regional settings (e.g. Dutch locale, where the decimal separator is a comma), making the values unusable without manual conversion.

Customers use exported reports for downstream analysis — SUM, COUNT, pivot tables, financial reconciliation. With values exported as text, none of these Excel functions work out of the box. For reports with hundreds or thousands of rows, manually converting each cell is not workable. Support has confirmed this is currently expected behavior, but for business users the export is effectively broken for its main purpose: calculating on numeric data.

Enhancement:

• Export numeric and currency columns with a proper Excel number data type (e.g. via native XLSX cell typing), not as text.
• Respect the user's locale/regional settings (decimal and thousands separators) so values parse correctly in Dutch/European Excel configurations.
• Optionally: allow the report designer to define the data type per column (text / number / currency / date) for exports.

Workaround today: Manually double-click each cell, or use Excel's Text-to-Columns / VALUE() conversion — both impractical at scale.