Excel copy drops leading zeros

I have records with a part number that is a text field, but contains digits. When I export to excel, the excel spreadsheet drops leading zeros from the part number.
How do I get the export to treat this as a text field and retain the zeros.
No, I have no option to make this a number field.

When the report is displayed on the screen initially for column "blah" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') = 0" evaluates to TRUE because REQUEST does not have 'EXCEL' in it causing the value to display on the screen. For column "blah_excel" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') != 0" evaluates to FALSE because REQUEST does not have 'EXCEL' in it causing "blah_excel" to not display.
When the user clicks to download to CSV the page's REQUEST has 'EXCEL' in it. I think actual request value is 'FLOW_EXCEL'. For column "blah" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') = 0" evaluates to FALSE because REQUEST has 'EXCEL' in it causing the value to not appear in the CSV. For column "blah_excel" the Conditional Display PL/SQL Expression "INSTR(NVL(:REQUEST,'YABBADABBADO'),'EXCEL') != 0" evaluates to TRUE because REQUEST does have 'EXCEL' in it causing "blah_excel" to appear in the CSV.
http://mikerife.blogspot.com/2007/08/preserve-leading-zeros-in-apex-csv.html
Mike

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>
Krishna Chaitanya G wrote:
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then no need to download the zeros,
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