Pasting HTML script to Excel 2007 converts the cells format to 'General'
 

Hi,

When I convert a cell's format to 'Text' & paste the text '.234567', Excel retains the format & shows '.234567'.

But when I convert the cell's format to 'Text' & paste HTML code that contains '.234567' (as shown below), Excel converts the cell's format to 'General' & shows '0.234567'

<html<body<STYLE TYPE=\"text\plain"</STYLE.234567</body</html

I tried with different STYLE TYPES but didn't work. Is there any tag that I can use as part of HTML code or something I can do in EXCEL to make this work?
Please reply ASAP

Thanks,
Dilip

PS: '.234567' here represents the frequency in a week