Columns in CSV vs. onscreen report

Hi all-
I have a report that selects from several columns. One of the columns, Retired, is 'Y' or 'N' valued. In the report attributes, the "Show" checkbox for the Retired column is cleared; I just use this column to change the color of the row (e.g., green for 'Y', red for 'N'). Works fine. But since CSV output doesn't capture formatting, I'd like to output the contents of the Retired column in the CSV file. Anyone know how to do that? It appears that the CSV only mirrors the report output in the web browser; is there any way to make it return the results of the query directly (e.g., ignoring the cleared "Show" checkbox)?
Thanks
Rob

Rob,
I'm sure I saw a way of achieving this on the forums many moons ago: there is some global boolean which is TRUE when Apex is producing CSV output and false when it it producing an on-screen report. You can reference this boolean in the conditions of the column in question ("retired" in your case) so that it only appears in the CSV or only in the on-screen report, as you like. However, I can't seem to be able to re-find this global variable. Did I dream this or does anyone know what it is?
Another way to do it would be to have a column condition which references the value of :REQUEST. You'll notice that when you hover over the link to OUTPUT TO CSV, REQUEST is being set to something like: FLOW_EXCEL_OUTPUT_R10363820249072335_en-gb. Your column condition could therefore check to see whether :REQUEST starts with 'FLOW_EXCEL_OUTPUT'. If it does, then you are in "output to CSV" mode and you want to show your retired column.
Hope that's of some help,
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