I haven't worked with bcp exports, but the simplest thing to do is to export
the data with a leading single quote. I think that is probably the only way
you are going to get Excel to recognise it as having leading zeros, anyway.
If you can handle it from bcp directly, great, otherwise create a new view
based on your underlying data with a field that adds a leading quote to your
data. e.g.

CREATE View ForExport
as
select
char(39) + MyField,
MyOtherField
from
my_table
GO

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

"UNOTech" wrote in message
...
I have a BCP statement in SQL Server that exports to an excel document. A
couple of the columns are numbers stored as text because they can have
zeros
as the lead digit, such as 0012345. However, when this imports into
excel,
it gives it a "General" format, which changes is to numeric, truncating
the
first 2 zeros. How can I get it to stop doing that as it messes up my
data
when that happens.

Thank you in advance.