Preventing automatic scientific notation conversion for excel o/p of bi pub

I have a column in a query that contains a mixture of numbers and letters and hyphens. If the only letter is E, then I get scientific notation instead of the actual text,when I run the report for excel output and open it in excel.
For example:
185701E-02 becomes 1.86E+03 in the excel output of the report
4962E6 becomes 4.96E+09
will be really grateful if anyone can help

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