excel file with "=embed" function

Hello,

I have a series of excel files that contain structures and text boxes pasted into cells with the function '=EMBED("ChemDraw.Document.6.0","")'

While I can double click on these objects to edit them in chemdraw, none of the functional aspects of add in work (e.g. exporting to SD file, "Molecule>Copy As>",...)

Is there a way to convert the embedded objects in the excel file (XLSX) or open the table in a different chem office software that will preserve the table contents?

thanks,

Tim

PS- UPDATE- My end goal is to convert these structures into SMILES strings "in bulk" and preserve the order/association with the data.