Hello Avn-
Welcome to JavaRanch.
On your way in you may have missed that JavaRanch has a policy on
display names, and yours does not comply with it - please adjust it accordingly, which you can do
right here. Thanks for your prompt attention to this matter.
As to your question, Excel will treat anything that looks like a number as a number -even if it is not- and handle it as it sees fit, which by default means scientific nmber format. I think -since there is no way to specify formatting in CSV or HTML- there is no way to prevent this. Do you have a particular reason why you're not generating an actual XLS file, where you can control the formatting of the field? An API like POI is not hard to use.
[ April 25, 2006: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]