Rich text format (with formatting tags) in Excel to unformatted text

Question

I have approx. 12000 cells in excel containing RTF (including formatting tags). I need to parse them to get to the unformatted text.

This is the example of one of th

Answer 1

Your post made it sound as if each RTF document was stored in a single Excell cell. If so, then

Solution using .Net Framework RichTextBox control

will convert the RTF in each cell to plain text in 2 lines of code (after a little system configuration to get the right .tlb file to allow reference to the .Net Framework). Put the cell value in rtfsample and

Set miracle = New System_Windows_Forms.RichTextBox
With miracle
    .RTF = rtfText
    PlainText = .TEXT
End With