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[Jack]

I'm starting to do some tax planning work, and I just discovered that  
in exported reports, even the amount columns are ouput in quotes.  This  
makes is difficult to do calculations on them.  (I use various  
spreadsheet functions to take different cuts of various accounts and  
categories.)  I looked in my spreadsheet from last year, and apparently  
I found some way to convert, but I don't remember whether I simply did  
it manually (unlikely) or managed to play with the import process.  Is  
there any easy way to avoid the quotes around values that really should  
be numbers, and so not forced to text?  (this is in the export files  
for reports)

Jack