Implement the records, submit the patches, and then work with Glen to
figure out how to expose it through the high level API.  Doesn't sound
too hard..

-Andy

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 10:05, James, Randy wrote:
> Hello all.  I have run across a situation where I need to generate
> spreadsheets with POI that have drop down lists.  I'm not an Excel guru, but
> I think I have narrowed down that drop down lists do not involve macros(I
> originally thought they did).  In the Excel developers kit it looks like the
> DV and DVAL record types handles this stuff.   So, before I attempt it I
> wanted to see if anyone else had tried this.  Looks like the way it works in
> Excel you set a cells validation to "allow list" then assign a range of
> lookup cells that contain the values for the drop down list.  Any help is
> much appreciated!
> 
> Randy James
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