Can Excel interpret a cell as HTML?

Question

I\'m using Aspose.Cells to build an Excel document programmatically. This works great. One of the cells, though, is a block of raw HTML. I\'m wondering if it is possible to

Answer 1

Unfortunately the answer is no.

Excel has two HTML options:

• Open a HTML file, which will sort of render the HTML, sort of, but won't contain any actual HTML in cells
• Store HTML in cells, but as unformatted text.

You could, maybe possibly, come up with a macro that lets you enter HTML into a cell, then saves that HTML as a document, opens it up in another instance of Excel, then grabs that formatted HTML and places it in the original document; that way you would have two columns, one with the HTML, and one with the output. It would be very unsightly though. Don't do it :0)