Date format in Excel report output

Goodmorning All.
Am using XML publisher for some reports. The current report is in Excel. Everything is fine on this. I want to print the date parameter in 'MON-YY' format.
In the 'Text Form Field' option, I have used the type as 'Regular Text'. In the 'Add Help Text' using the formatting as follows: <?format-Date:P_TO_DATE1;MM/YYYY?>. This seems to send the date parameter '1-Jun-12' as 'Jun-12'. But when it opens in excel, Excel assigns the cell 'Custom' format and type as 'd-mmm-yy' instead of 'mmm-yy'. So the final output still comes in DD-MON-YY format.
I have tried changing the type to 'DATE' and date format to 'MMM-yy' in the 'Text Form Field' option. But still the excel custom format is overriding the final output.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Z

Hi Alex,
I used the following code in the 'Form field help Text': <?xdoxslt:format_date(P_FROM_DATE1,'MMM-yy','yyyy-MM-dd', 'en-us', $_XDOTIMEZONE)?>
Then I wrote some letters immediately after that and ran the report. When I opened it in excel, Excel assigned format category as 'General' to the output cell. So the output now comes as desired format as 'Jan-12XYZ'.
So it seems, if there will be some additional characters after the dates, then excel does not auto reformat the XML output to the custom date category.
Now the big question; How to do it without the trailing characters i.e. 'XYZ' in the above output. If I remove them, then Excel will again try to custom format the date. I read soemwhere that blank space can be used to append but am not sure how it will be in the code.
By the way in the 'text Form Field Options' I am using type as 'Regular Text'.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks
Z

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