I won't be.  Its pretty low priority on my list of things to do. 
 Graphing and formula support is much higher.

Seriously, this isn't that big of a deal to add (<20 lines).  Do it, 
send me the patches and I'll commit them.  

-Andy


Romin Irani wrote:

>Any idea if this change would be implemented in the next dev release or
>something ?
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>>Hi,
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>>Is it possible to give us some idea on when support is planned for writing
>>Excel Files containing Macros.
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>I've no plans for this specifically and I know of no one planning to do
>this for 2.0.  It is an opportunity for contributiong.
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>>In our current project, I am using POI to populate certain cells in the
>>spreadsheet with backend data. The problem is that the spreadsheet has some
>>prebuilt macros which cannot be removed. And once we write the spreadsheet
>>file using POI, the macros are gone.
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>This should be easy to solve by adapting the HSSFWorkbook to preserve
>other entries in the underlying POIFS filesystem.  I suspect this is
>about a 10-20 line code change.
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>-Andy
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>>I am using POI-1.5, JDK 1.4, WinNT
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>>Thanks
>>Romin.
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