Wrapping fields in quotes : CSV Output

This is probably a dead simple thing, but it's stumping me at the moment.
I have a report where I need all fields to be wrapped in quotes regardless of their format. Currently the only fields which are output in quotes are the ones which contain spaces (and therefore need the quotes I guess to show that it's one field).
I'm pretty much a novice at this so any help would be more than appreciated :)
Many thanks in advance.

Thanks AlexAnd,
I was just about to try that - and that is definitely an option, I just wondered whether there was some way I could format it in the output rather than forcing it as part of the SQL.
In terms of more detail - there isn't much more, I have my SQL statement which is basically to select each field from a table and then I select the CSV output type - I haven't done anything clever with templates or anything like that as I haven't had that much exposure to it.
Steve.

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We have an application were the totals in the report region will wrap when the total is negative and formatted with a negative sign preceding the number (e.g. -43,567.99). The wrapping results in users being confused to wether or not a value is negative or positive. We want all non-numeric columns to wrap so that the user does not have to scroll horizontally.
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or
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