Removing HTML tags

I imported an Excel spreadsheet into a table. 
The table contains a note field. The text was imported with HTML tags as follows:
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10/17/16 EC follow up email from Kevin as follows......<br /> Ed, we look forward to your presentation.  Attending will for sure by Jay Wocelka ? Director of Retail Sales, Cary Trost ? Director or Wholesale Sales, and myself ? Division Manager/ Consumer Marketing.   We may have additional attendees depending on schedules and availability.   We look forward to meeting you on  November 15th.  Have a great day. Kevin<br /><br />10/17/16 EC Email from Kevin 
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I set the field to allow HTML tags and that allowed the view of the report to look normal.However, when I edit the field the tags are as shown above. 
I fiddled with Excel and got the tags removed and the text formated like it should. I don't want to have to import all the tables that have notes if there is some way within QB to fix it.

The above note field should look like this:

10/17/16 EC follow up email from Kevin as follows...... Ed, we look forward to your presentation.  Attending will for sure by Jay Wocelka ? Director of Retail Sales, Cary Trost ? Director or Wholesale Sales, and myself ? Division Manager/ Consumer Marketing.   We may have additional attendees depending on schedules and availability.   We look forward to meeting you on  November 15th.  Have a great day. Kevin
10/17/16 EC Email from Kevin