Escaping HTML tags in Excel report export

Hello,
I have a classic report on an entry form that allows users to enter any character off the keyboard into a description field. The problem is that when users enter brackets ( greater than , less than ), APEX will handle them as HTML tags ( does not display all the text after the less than character) . I tried to change that column type to "display as text , escape special characters" but that did not help. So I had to user the htf.escape_sc function for that column and the report works just fine.
however, the problem is that none of the solutions above worked for Excel export of that report. Can anybody tell me how to escape such special characters in the excel export of a report ???
Thanks,
Sam

Where are the experts! it makes me feel like either no body has had this issue before (which seems odd) or that it is impossible to be resolved. Any suggestions will be appreciated..
Thanks,
Sam

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