Exporting data to an excel sheet with symbols

Hi all ,

I am currently using a query which displays output in a table view in ARIS. For eg : In the ARIS table view ,the result in the table view displays the symbols next to the object names..  

Now we tried to export this output as a table in MS excel and 2) also tried to copy and paste this output from ARIS to MS excel. But i am unable to copy the symbols into MS Excel along with the text.Only the text gets copied. Has anyone faced this issue ? Has anyone tried some workarounds / used some other desktop tool for spreadsheets?