Avik Sengupta wrote:
as I'm sure you've guessed, nobody here knows the answer :(
If excel creates that, the best we can do is implement it in read. For
writing, i suppose we create an area ref when such a formula is created by
POI? And if excel reads that fine, I think we are ok. There are various
places where excel creates certain optimisations while writing, but is
perfectly happy to read other stuff.
I finally dug up the OpenOffice document, which didn't know the answer
particularly well either. It seems like it's some kind of precomputed
calculation result holder, for whatever reason. Turns out I can
completely ignore it and return "" as the formula string and the
resulting formula string comes out as expected.
Maybe a holdover from when computers were too slow to recompute on load. :-)
Daniel
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