Exporting SharePoint List to Excel it adds special / weird characters

It's probably an escape code but they're not uniform. When exporting a SharePoint List to Excel there is one column that is a multi-select lookup column and upon export between each item in that column there are a few special characters. #68 and #70 in particular I see quite a lot of. What are these escape codes and what would be a good way of filtering them out so they don't end up on the export?

Hi Bouhatsu and Rob,
I'm having the same thing with a filtered lookup. When exporting the list to Excel it adds the ID from the other list in front of the value I want (without me asking for it ...).
Did one of you found a solution to get these ID's out of the export?
Regards,
Jeroen

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LookUp Field Values have a string representation of “(ID);#(VALUE)”, i.e. “2;#Second Entry”.
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I did a test as the followings:
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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you got the error "unable to download owssvr.dll" when exporting a list to Excel.
owssvr.dll is the module given by Microsoft to read the data from SharePoint Lists using remote procedure call.
You can find the OWSSVR.DLL in SharePoint 2010 Server Physical Path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI.
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Generally, the issue is caused by the brower. Please reset the IE to check whether it works.
In addition, you can repair the Office to check whether it works.
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Hi Kelly,
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