Pivot Table contains HTML

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to handle HTML displayed in a pivot table field? I either need to strip the HTML tags or parse the value, server-side in Project Online, or client-side in the Excel file. Has anyone dealt with this before?
Also I can't use VBA since Excel reports can't have VBA when used in SharePoint Online...
Thanks,
Roland

Hi Roland,
Could you kindly clarify this a bit further. How do you want the HTML to be treated? What is the desired outcome or behaviour?
Regards,
Michael Amadi
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