I would like to know whether there is an efficient way of retrieving
all the cell formatting information in one go and represent it as one
string? There is always the hard way of walking through the entire cell
object model and retrieve property by property but would prefer
something more efficient? E.g. reading the content of the format
painter or so. If the entire cell format can be represented as one
string, is there also a way to apply this formatting string to the cell
again?

Thanks in advance,
Reto