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Click here to copy the following block ' Decode an HTML string to a regular ANSI string ' ' it strips down all special HTML sequences (eg "&lt;") ' however, it doesn't strip HTML tags Function HTMLDecode(ByVal html As String) As String   Dim i As Long      HTMLDecode = html      Do     ' search the next ampersand, exit if no more     i = InStr(i + 1, HTMLDecode, "&")     If i = 0 Then Exit Do     If StrComp(Mid$(HTMLDecode, i, 6), "&nbsp;", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then       HTMLDecode = Left$(HTMLDecode, i - 1) & " " & Mid$(HTMLDecode, i + 6)     ElseIf StrComp(Mid$(HTMLDecode, i, 6), "&quot;", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then       HTMLDecode = Left$(HTMLDecode, i - 1) & """" & Mid$(HTMLDecode, _         i + 6)     ElseIf StrComp(Mid$(HTMLDecode, i, 5), "&amp;", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then       HTMLDecode = Left$(HTMLDecode, i - 1) & "&" & Mid$(HTMLDecode, _         i + 5)     ElseIf StrComp(Mid$(HTMLDecode, i, 4), "&lt;", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then       HTMLDecode = Left$(HTMLDecode, i - 1) & "<" & Mid$(HTMLDecode, _         i + 4)     ElseIf StrComp(Mid$(HTMLDecode, i, 4), "&gt;", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then       HTMLDecode = Left$(HTMLDecode, i - 1) & ">" & Mid$(HTMLDecode, _         i + 4)     End If   Loop End Function

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