I think the 1c1h is only for sheet references when the sheet name is not 
the same.
Or so it appears to me.

Anyone know anything about this record?

-Andy

Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> might want to send this to the poi-dev list.
>
> Luc Girardin wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> To go straight to the topic, an undocumented record type (1C1h) seems
>> to be crucial for Excel when dealing with cells that reference other
>> cells, in order to decide whether they should be recomputed or not.
>> While this may sounds truly bizarre to you, there is a difference
>> between an unmodified file saved either ONE or TWO (or more) times
>> within Excel:
>>
>> File saved one time:
>>
>> ============================================
>> Offset 0x5bd (1469)
>> recordid = 0x1c1, size =8
>> [UNKNOWN RECORD]
>>    .id        = 1c1
>> [/UNKNWON RECORD]
>>
>> -----UNKNOWN----------------------------------
>> 00000000 C1 01 00 00 80 38 01 00                         .....8..
>> ============================================
>>
>> File saved two times:
>>
>> ============================================
>> Offset 0x5bd (1469)
>> recordid = 0x1c1, size =8
>> [UNKNOWN RECORD]
>>    .id        = 1c1
>> [/UNKNWON RECORD]
>>
>> -----UNKNOWN----------------------------------
>> 00000000 C1 01 00 00 60 69 01 00                         ....`i..
>> ============================================
>>
>> Background information
>> ----------------------
>>
>> I am creating a reporting system that takes an Excel template as
>> input, modifies some values within one sheet (named InvestView Link in
>> my examples), and produce a XLS file. A second sheet contains
>> references (style 'InvestView Link'!A1) to the POI generated sheet.
>> The problem is that when cell values are modified using POI, the value
>> of the cell that reference these cells are not updated.
>>
>> I did run all my test with both POI v. 1.5.1 and v. 1.8.0-dev. All the
>> files I am referring to are available at:
>>
>>   http://www.macrofocus.com/tmp/1c1/
>>
>> Use case
>> --------
>>
>> I create a template file and saved it ONE time (template-good.xls) or
>> TWO times (template-bad.xls) with Excel 2000.
>>
>> Then I use POI to load these two templates, get the sheet named
>> 'InvestView Link' and modify some values. The files I am producing are
>> modified-good-1.X.xls and modified-bad-1.X.xls whether I am using the
>> first or second template as input. When you open these files with
>> Excel, you will see that the values of the cells with references (in
>> Sheet1) are correct in the first case, but not in the second (that's
>> the problem I would like to have solved).
>>
>> To analyze what has changed during the previous process, I produced
>> the files untouch-*.xls, which have been produced using the same
>> process, except that no value has been modified (i.e. they have
>> been set using the same value).
>>
>> Note that files generated with POI v. 1.8-dev have problems when
>> opened in Excel (File error: data may have been lost). I guess this
>> problem is unrelated, but you may want to have a look at it too...
>>
>> Resolution
>> ----------
>>
>> I believe the record 1C1h is holding values to decide which cell has
>> to be recomputed. It would be good to have POI handle this properly,
>> either automatically or by providing a method to force the update the
>> content of a sheet. What do you think? I am desperately seeking help
>> on this issue.
>>
>> So long,
>>
>> Luc
>>
>>  
>>
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