Report-Export to excel loses properties (1 Viewer)

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I have a report that I export to excel. When I open up the excel file, the column properties are different than they were in access. For example, the date field in access is not a date field when transferred to excel. Is there something that I need to add to access to retain the properties. I would import into excel but this is a secured database and you cannot pull into excel in that situation.