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Excel cell metadata and formatting in Parse

Advanced Excel parsing can now preserve source-cell provenance and formatting in parse output.

  • Set advancedOptions.excelIncludeCellMetadata to return source cell references such as B2 or merged ranges such as A1:C1; formula cells also include the source formula text.
  • Set advancedOptions.excelIncludeCellFormatting to return structured cell formatting such as bold, italic, font color, and background color.
  • For HTML table output, metadata is also emitted as data-cell and data-formula attributes, and formatting preserves inline cell styles.

Both options are off by default and require advancedOptions.excelParsingMode: "advanced". See the Parse configuration guide for setup details.