Email id shows [email protected] while generating excel report

Hi,

I am trying to generate an excel report using ColdFusion 2018 and in the excel file there is a column for email id.  Instead of showing email id, it shows "[email protected]" as hyperlinked text. And if i click on the text is says "Cannot open the specified file".  Is there a setting where i can see the actual email id. 

This is happening only in coldfusion 2018, i was not facing this in earlier version.  If i generate a web report (Showing html report in table on the screen) using ColdFusion 2018, it works fine.   I presume this can be resolved by some security setting and not through code as code is the same for older versions.

Please find the attached screenshot, coldfusion code to generate the excel (removed unncessary code and kept only the necessary sections), excel spreadsheet generated.

Could someone help me with this.  I have been searching for the answer in internet and i couldn't find a single thread for this.

regards,

Sunil