diff --git a/ClosedXML/Excel/Cells/XLCell.cs b/ClosedXML/Excel/Cells/XLCell.cs
index 2a163a9..8308ed7 100644
--- a/ClosedXML/Excel/Cells/XLCell.cs
+++ b/ClosedXML/Excel/Cells/XLCell.cs
@@ -1586,6 +1586,9 @@
 
         private bool SetEnumerable(object collectionObject)
         {
+            // IXLRichText implements IEnumerable, but we don't want to handle this here.
+            if ((collectionObject as IXLRichText) != null) return false;
+
             var asEnumerable = collectionObject as IEnumerable;
             return InsertData(asEnumerable) != null;
         }
diff --git a/ClosedXML_Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.cs b/ClosedXML_Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.cs
index af0ad36..3ceed77 100644
--- a/ClosedXML_Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.cs
+++ b/ClosedXML_Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.cs
@@ -91,7 +91,21 @@
                 if(richText.Bold)
                     ws.Cell(3, 2).Value = String.Format("\"{0}\" is Bold.", richText.Text);
             }
-            
+
+
+            // Now we'll build a cell with rich text, and some other styles 
+            cell = ws.Cell(5, 1);
+
+            // Add the text parts
+            cell.RichText.AddText("Some").SetFontColor(XLColor.Green);
+            cell.RichText.AddText(" rich text ").SetFontColor(XLColor.Blue).SetBold();
+            cell.RichText.AddText("with a gray background").SetItalic();
+
+            cell.Style.Fill.SetBackgroundColor(XLColor.Gray);
+
+            ws.Cell(5, 2).Value = cell.RichText; // Should copy only rich text, but not background
+
+
             ws.Columns().AdjustToContents();
 
             wb.SaveAs(filePath);
diff --git a/ClosedXML_Tests/Resource/Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.xlsx b/ClosedXML_Tests/Resource/Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.xlsx
index 8fd19ce..c44ada1 100644
--- a/ClosedXML_Tests/Resource/Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.xlsx
+++ b/ClosedXML_Tests/Resource/Examples/Styles/UsingRichText.xlsx
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