Search for a guidelines for custom number formats in Excel.
May be this link will help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264372

Open the Format Cells dialog in Excel and try to apply these custom
formats. This way you can figure out what this abracadabra means.

Regards,
Yegor

> This question is not entirely related to POI, rather to Excel.

> Documentation tells about some formats which I don't understand.

> "($#,##0_);($#,##0)"
> "m/d/yy h:mm"
> "_($*#,##0_);_($*(#,##0);_($* \"-\"_);_(@_)"

> What do ()'s mean? What does _ mean? When date contains both month and minute,
> how does it guess which one is which - first one is always month? :-separated
> is always minute?
> What does * mean?

> If you do know any of this, I would like to hear :)

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