diff --git a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/controlAndPlugin.service.ts b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/controlAndPlugin.service.ts
index 09e002801..480198b46 100644
--- a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/controlAndPlugin.service.ts
+++ b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/controlAndPlugin.service.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
 import { ExportService } from './export.service';
 import { FilterService } from './filter.service';
 import { SortService } from './sort.service';
+import { sanitizeHtmlToText } from './../services/utilities';
 import * as $ from 'jquery';
 
 // using external non-typed js libraries
@@ -163,7 +164,11 @@ export class ControlAndPluginService {
         if (!gridOptions.editable || !columnDef.editor) {
           const isEvaluatingFormatter = (columnDef.exportWithFormatter !== undefined) ? columnDef.exportWithFormatter : gridOptions.exportOptions.exportWithFormatter;
           if (columnDef.formatter && isEvaluatingFormatter) {
-            return columnDef.formatter(0, 0, item[columnDef.field], columnDef, item, this._grid);
+            const formattedOutput = columnDef.formatter(0, 0, item[columnDef.field], columnDef, item, this._grid);
+            if (columnDef.sanitizeDataExport || (gridOptions.exportOptions && gridOptions.exportOptions.sanitizeDataExport)) {
+              return sanitizeHtmlToText(formattedOutput);
+            }
+            return formattedOutput;
           }
         }
 
diff --git a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/export.service.ts b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/export.service.ts
index 67a94935f..8f5441a50 100644
--- a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/export.service.ts
+++ b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/export.service.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import {
 } from './../models/index';
 import { TextEncoder } from 'text-encoding-utf-8';
 // import { TextEncoder } from 'utf8-encoding';
-import { addWhiteSpaces, htmlEntityDecode } from './../services/utilities';
+import { addWhiteSpaces, htmlEntityDecode, sanitizeHtmlToText } from './../services/utilities';
 import * as $ from 'jquery';
 
 // using external non-typed js libraries
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ export class ExportService {
 
       // does the user want to sanitize the output data (remove HTML tags)?
       if (columnDef.sanitizeDataExport || this._exportOptions.sanitizeDataExport) {
-        itemData = this.sanitizeHtmlToText(itemData);
+        itemData = sanitizeHtmlToText(itemData);
       }
 
       // when CSV we also need to escape double quotes twice, so " becomes ""
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ export class ExportService {
    * @param itemObj
    */
   readGroupedTitleRow(itemObj: any) {
-    let groupName = this.sanitizeHtmlToText(itemObj.title);
+    let groupName = sanitizeHtmlToText(itemObj.title);
     const exportQuoteWrapper = this._exportQuoteWrapper || '';
     const delimiter = this._exportOptions.delimiter;
     const format = this._exportOptions.format;
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ export class ExportService {
 
       // does the user want to sanitize the output data (remove HTML tags)?
       if (columnDef.sanitizeDataExport || this._exportOptions.sanitizeDataExport) {
-        itemData = this.sanitizeHtmlToText(itemData);
+        itemData = sanitizeHtmlToText(itemData);
       }
 
       if (format === FileType.csv) {
@@ -308,17 +308,6 @@ export class ExportService {
     return output;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Sanitize, return only the text without HTML tags
-   * @input htmlString
-   * @return text
-   */
-  sanitizeHtmlToText(htmlString: string) {
-    const temp = document.createElement('div');
-    temp.innerHTML = htmlString;
-    return temp.textContent || temp.innerText;
-  }
-
   /**
    * Triggers download file with file format.
    * IE(6-10) are not supported
diff --git a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/utilities.ts b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/utilities.ts
index 7c293ddea..4cf81a1f7 100644
--- a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/utilities.ts
+++ b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/aurelia-slickgrid/services/utilities.ts
@@ -328,6 +328,17 @@ export function parseUtcDate(inputDateString: string, useUtc: boolean): string |
   return date;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Sanitize, return only the text without HTML tags
+ * @input htmlString
+ * @return text
+ */
+export function sanitizeHtmlToText(htmlString: string) {
+  const temp = document.createElement('div');
+  temp.innerHTML = htmlString;
+  return temp.textContent || temp.innerText;
+}
+
 /**
  * Converts a string to camel case
  * @param str the string to convert
diff --git a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/examples/slickgrid/example12.ts b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/examples/slickgrid/example12.ts
index c4d3d4cae..2ba043e7b 100644
--- a/aurelia-slickgrid/src/examples/slickgrid/example12.ts
+++ b/aurelia-slickgrid/src/examples/slickgrid/example12.ts
@@ -98,11 +98,13 @@ export class Example12 {
         sidePadding: 15
       },
       enableAutoResize: true,
+      enableExcelCopyBuffer: true,
       enableFiltering: true,
       enableTranslate: true,
       exportOptions: {
         // set at the grid option level, meaning all column will evaluate the Formatter (when it has a Formatter defined)
         exportWithFormatter: true,
+        sanitizeDataExport: true
       },
       gridMenu: {
         showExportCsvCommand: true,           // true by default, so it's optional