ExportCollectionActionListener dropping leading zeroes

We use <af:exportCollectionActionListener> tag to provide users with the ability to export data from some <af:table>s to MS Excel. We have problems with data values like "01.21", for example, which are converted by Excel to "January, 21". Also when there are numeric codes with leading zeros, these zeros are stripped because Excel recognizes the values as numbers. Does anybody know if it is possible to solve this problem easily (for example by specifying somehow the data format of particular columns in Excel export as "Text")?
I did some research on the web and found a creative solution for surrounding the value with some characters in a way that is visible only on the Excel file and not in the HTML page. It looks something like this:
<af:column sortProperty="Header" sortable="true"
headerText="#{bindings.MyReport.hints.MyData.label}"
id="resId1c27">
<af:panelGroupLayout layout="horizontal" id="panel999">
<af:outputText value="=TEXT("" inlineStyle="display:none" id="ot1444"/>
<af:outputText value="#{row.MyData}" id="ot21"/>
<af:outputText value="","0")" inlineStyle="display:none" id="ot222999"/>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</af:column>
The idea is that in the Excel we end up with an output like this:
=TEXT("MyValue", "0")
The problem is that I'm seeing that output verbatim so it looks like Excel is not recognizing it properly.
Any ideas on how to tell Excel the data type for a particular column?
BTW, I'm coding on Jdev 11.1.3.
Thanks,
MV

Hi,
actually the formatting work around was based on a bug, which got fixed in JDeveloper. So right now we don't have an option to provide Excel formatting
Frank

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