Question

I am using Coldfusion to create a basic Excel spreadsheet. I build a table, and then convert it to Excel using the following code:

<cfset fileName = "myFile.xls">
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="attachment; filename=#fileName#">
<cfcontent type="application/msexcel" reset="true">
<cfoutput>#myExcel#</cfoutput>

The “myExcel” variable holds an HTML table.

My problem is that some of the cells contain values such as: 281E47. Which Excel is then translating to 2.81E+49. How can I specify, in my HTML table, that I want these values to be displayed literally, as text, rather than converted into a number?

Answer 1

This answer to another thread worked for me:

Export to Excel not displaying numbers correctly