I have already tried all these combinations.I get error ehen i open the file
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:19 PM, MSB <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Have you tried
>
> this.styleKg.setDataFormat(wb.createDataFormat().getFormat("#,##000
> \'kg\'"));
>
> or
>
> this.styleKg.setDataFormat(wb.createDataFormat().getFormat("#,##000 kg"));
>
> or even
>
> this.styleKg.setDataFormat(wb.createDataFormat().getFormat("#,##000kg"));
>
> just to see if the problem has to do with the single inverted commas
> surrounding the units symbol? Have no idea if this will help at all, sorry.
>
> Yours
>
> Mark B
>
>
> Princess-4 wrote:
> >
> > this.styleKg.setDataFormat(wb.createDataFormat().getFormat("#,##000
> > 'kg'"));
> >
> >
> > is not setting the format in the cell with POI 2.5 .basically i want 1000
> > Kg
> > to be written in the cell
> > along with the unit.
> >
> > The same user defined format works in Excel..
> >
> > But to display %
> > this.stylePer.setDataFormat(wb.createDataFormat().getFormat("0.00%")); is
> > working
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
>
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