I could not come up with an exect number, but it was
around 4500-5000.  I fixed my problem by creating
reusable cell styles that could be used over and over.
 I had been creating a new cell style for every cell
when I had the problem.

--- "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Interesting, can you do some investigation and find
> out what the upper 
> limit is?
> 
> Can you optimize your use of cell formats?  HSSF by
> design creates a new 
> cell
> format (even if its a duplicate) if you do.  I
> thought long and hard 
> about this but
> decided to go with that because you may wish to use
> a particular cell 
> format for
> a particular group of cells.  Should you ever decide
> to change it, it 
> would be
> reflected in all of those cells.  
> 
> I think HSSF should throw an exception to warn you
> if you hit the bounds.
> 
> -Andy
> 
> Cornellious Mann wrote:
> 
> >"Too many different cell formats."
> >
> >Has anyone seen this error message?  I get this
> when I
> >generate a large Excel file and then try to open
> the
> >file using Excel.  The file is then unable to open.
> >
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