I'm working on an application where I'm extracting text from a table selected in the active drawing file. I'm running into issues getting the text out of the cell with SldWorks.TableAnnotation.DisplayedText2

On the drawing, the table (which itself is generated by a macro at some point) shows a plain column of text

However, I'm seeing issues where DisplayedText2 comes back with this text wrapped with what looks like markup tags defining the font color. I'd initially just accepted I'd have to deal with this and made a filter function to get the text between the tags.

That works most of the time, except sometimes it seems that DisplayedText2 comes back with just the opening tag, breaking my function. 

Before I go ahead and make my function deal with this I figured I'd ask - is there a native API way to actually just get the displayed text? "DisplayedText2" evidently does not actually just send back the displayed text. And I see the same issue with the Text2 property.