POI/HSSF is a FILE reader/writer, so what you suggest is not among its aims. I suppose you would need some kind of java/COM bridge to talk to a running excel application.
Quoting G Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > I'm new to POI/HSSF so apologies in advance. I've used HSSF > successfully to read from a spread sheet. What I'm curious to know how > to do is, given that a user has an Excel spreadsheet open on the desktop > (Windows box) and has selected a number of contiguous rows from the > spread sheet, is there a way to read the range object and operate on > those selected rows? I've done a similar thing using Win32:OLE in Perl, > but would like to do similar with Java/HSSF. Thanks in advance for any > replies. > > Geoff > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
