Export to Excel, VARCHAR2 DB Type and leading zeros issue

Oracle JHeadstart Release 11.1.1.2.29
We are using the Export to excel option, but when we have leading zeros it doesn't export it as text so the data is incorrect.
Can any one please tell how doe we configure ADF to have the leading zeros and export it as text rather than as number.
<af:commandMenuItem partialSubmit="true"
textAndAccessKey="#{nls['EXPORT']}"
icon="/jheadstart/images/excel.png"
immediate="true" id="cmi0">
<af:exportCollectionActionListener exportedId="IdLookupTab"
type="excelHTML"/>
</af:commandMenuItem>
Regards
Ram

you could add an apostrophe ' in front of all fields that you want exported as a text.
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