Excel OleDB Destination forcing currency/money source to text dt_wstr

Greetings, I have source data from SQL Server which is defined as money and I have been asked  to format that to excel as currency/money. It seems SSIS does not want to do this. It comes thru the pipeline correctly as a dt_cy data type but when it gets to the OLEDB Destination, it changes the currency column to a dt_wstr data type.  Data conversion or derived column transform seem pointless as it is the correct data type from the oledb source, but I tried them also, did not work. I tried modifing the advanced editor properties for this column changing to dt_cy, it allows that but when it writes the worksheet it is formatted as text. This is not a one time run, it will be automated so I can't manually format the worksheet. I have a sql script to create the worksheet as follows:
CREATE TABLE `DataSummary` (
    `total_cost`  currency  ,
    `column2` varchar (6) ,
    `platform_name` varchar (255) ,
    `platform_description` varchar (255))

a screenshot of the oledb destination with the input and output column in question highlighted. the input total_cost is defined here as dt_cy, and output is dt_wstr. How can I force that definition in this column to currency? Running SQL 2008 R2.