Any way to export table to excel file with leading 0s?

Question

I have to export about 50 excel files from different tables.  Some tables contain leading 0s in the columns.  If I use bcp to export to xls file, the leading 0s will be missing.  If bcp to csv or txt file, there will be no issue at all.  But I have to export to xls file in order to let client update that xls file and reload to tables again.
Is there any other ways to do this task?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Ok,  I played with it and fixed it on mine to work.
Here is what you do.  Create a blank Excel file in Excel with a single header row with your column names in it, and then set the datatypes for each column in Excel to match your export type.  For the below, create an Excel file and in column A1, put "Name" and change the column to Type Text.  Then in B1 type Date and set it to type Date, then save the file as c:\Test.xls.  Then close the file in Excel.
In SSMS execute the following:
Code Snippet
INSERT INTO OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'Excel 8.0;Database=C:\test.xls;HDR=YES',
'SELECT Name, Date FROM [Sheet1$]')
SELECT [Name], GETDATE() FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs
GO
 It worked perfectly in my environment.  Don't bother with BCP, just create a formated Excel File with a header row with your output column names and then save it.