Even following the example at the link you provided still doesn't work. I still get the same thing happening as I described in my original message.

Any other ideas?

Alex.

Laubach Shawn Contr OC-ALC/PSB wrote:

That's because it is not a built in format.  You need to get an actual
HSSFDataFormat object and ask it for the format.  An example is at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hssf/quick-guide.html#DataFormats

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Moots [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 9:28 AM
To: POI Users List
Subject: DateFormat "m/d" does not work


Hi,

I'm trying to use POI to format some date values in a spreadsheet. I need to get the date format in just month/day format (without the year). I've been trying to do that with the following code:

HSSFCellStyle normalStyle = project.WorkBook.createCellStyle();
HSSFFont normal = project.WorkBook.createFont();
normalStyle.setDataFormat(HSSFDataFormat.getBuiltinFormat("m/d")); // normalStyle.setDataFormat(HSSFDataFormat.getBuiltinFormat("m/d/yy")); normalStyle.setFont(normal);


Whenever I use the given code I don't get the expected results in the created spreadsheet. The spreadsheet just shows a number, which varies depending on the specified date, but is always incorrect and NOT formatted as a date. If I use the commented line of code then things work properly, but it messes up the on-screen formatting of my spreadsheet as the column widths don't fit the year specification.
I'd appreciate it if someone could help out with this issue. I can provide some screenshots or other details if necessary.


Thanks for your help.
Alex.



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