Hi:
The '09'x is the hexadecimal equivalent of a TAB character. It looks like you are writing into an Excel file with TABs as the delimiter for the columns. Can you set a custom format in Excel for the phynumber column to show leading zeroes????
The only other way that I know to have Excel respect leading zeroes is to use the Output Delivery System to send a Microsoft format for Excel to use when it opens the file. The method that you use with ODS depends on whether you are using ODS HTML-based methods or XML-based methods, as described in this post:
http://support.sas.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=41019ꀻ
It is possible that you could write a command (via DDE) to format the phynumber column, but I don't do much with DDE, so I don't know what such a command would look like.
cynthia