Hi Redge,

If you can use a CSS style attribute, this should work for you (shown here
applied to a <td element):

<td style="mso-number-format:\@"00001</td

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Regards,

Jake Marx
MS MVP - Excel
www.longhead.com

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Red Ogden wrote:
Please can anyone tell me how to specify in html that the data-type of
a column is text rather than general.

I am generating an html table using XSL to be opened in Excel but one
column loses it's leading zeros and I therefore want to specify the
above in the output html.

Any help will be gratefully received.

Redge