Set Field as text before exporting to excel

HELLO GURUS,
i have a program which exports material numbers and other relevant data from sap tables to excel sheet.
certain material numbers contain text 'E' in between the material number (Eg. 17700E0056). When such data is exported to excel, Excel treats these as exponential numbers and converts them to scientific notation (1.77E+60).
How do I export the data as it is?
Is there a way that i can convert it to text format before exporting it to excel..?

Hi,
try moving the values to a CHAR field before download to Excel
or
when building your field catalog , specify the field length same as of that fields data element.
eg. your material number is of char 10.
so set yout outputlen eq 10.
g_flcat-outputlen = '10'.
this works.
Thanks & regards.
Edited by: anusha25 on Nov 8, 2011 5:02 PM

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