Hello,
seems like you're pretty stuck with the problem - reversing out a support pack is only going to work for a certain time, as you will eventually need to patch.
An alternate solution (apart from not using cell variants in the first place) is to develop your own export to Excel. You could add your own buttons, calling your own functions to do the export. You can take advantage of the ALV model to do most of the work for you - just create a node which has a text representation of all the columns that have cell variants so that in this node has just texts. Then call the ALV export routines to export the text node instead of your ALV table.
It's a pain - but it may be you don't have much choice if you really need to have cell variants. I've done much the same thing for a complex table I have created in an application - it was too complex for ALV usage - but I needed export to Excel - so I built a text only node and filled it with all the data in a text only representation and then passed this node through the ALV functionality to build the excel file for output to user. (I'm intending to write a blog about this soon). It was relatively simple, but obviously not as simple as just using the SAP functionality (which has been disabled).
Hope this helps,
Chris
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