I just discovered a curious anomaly in a large spreadsheet I'm parsing with POI. I discovered that there is at least one merged region (1 row, 2 columns) that shows a particular value when I view it in Excel, but I discovered that there is hidden data "under" the merged region in the second cell in the merged region. If I use POI to just iterate through all the rows and columns, retrieving the cell data, it shows the value that I can see in the merged region (from the first column cell), but also the value from the second column cell. I can also see this in Excel if I select the entire second column, then "Copy", then paste into an external editor. It shows the hidden value.
I need to figure out a way to detect this kind of condition with POI. If the cell is hidden like this, I want to ignore it. Can merged regions tell me this somehow? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
