title: Perl (or Python) and Excel is there a way to determine font types used in multi-line text in a cell?
body: <p>I have data coming as an Excel files where some cells contain strings that contain previous version of data represented as strikethrough characters. I know how to use Perl and OLE to parse/manipulate Excel files but I only seen text formatting being accessible on cell-level. Is there a way to access formatting on character-by-character base? The goal is to locate and eliminate all the text that was formatted as strikethrough.</p>