title: How can I ensure that my Excel cell will be treated as a string?
body: <p>I am using Coldfusion to create a basic Excel spreadsheet. I build a table, and then convert it to Excel using the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;cfset fileName = "myFile.xls"&gt;
  &lt;CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="attachment; filename=#fileName#"&gt;
  &lt;cfcontent type="application/msexcel" reset="true"&gt;
  &lt;cfoutput&gt;#myExcel#&lt;/cfoutput&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The "myExcel" variable holds an HTML table.</p>
  
  <p>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?</p>