Download greater than 255 characters from alv into excel sheet

Hi,
I have an ALV grid display report where the last field contains close to 600 characters of text.
When I use the Export -> Local File -> Spreadsheet option and save it in an excel sheet, only first 255 characters are getting downloaded into excelsheet and rest is not gettting downloaded.
Solution I have is: Keep a button on the screen. If that button is clicked, use GUI_DOWNLOAD FM and the entire text (all 600 chars) gets downloaded.
Is there any other solution to the above problem?
I tried downloading the alv report into XML format and opened as an excel document, but even then only first 255 characters are apearing in excel cell.
The domain has length 2048 chars for the final internal table in alv, so there is no problem with data element or domain.
OIn debugging mode, I am able to see all the 600 chars in the final internal table before alv display.
It looks like there is a constraint in alv that is can display only 255 characters in a cell.
ALso, I tried converting the grid display to list display and then download into excel , but the result is same.
Please help.

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