Good to hear that you have the IDE working now. Secondly, whay do you actually want to do with the documents you have? Is it simply a case of reading their contents? If so, then I would suggest that you take a look at a second Apache project called Tika - http://tika.apache.org/. It has been created to do just that, process a huge variety of documents and strip the contents from them. The part that deals with Office documents is built upon POI and has been the target of lots of work to iron out bugs with errant carriage returns and the like. You may see on the POI lists the name Nick Burch cropping up; well Nick was the chair of the POI project for a few years and is very much involved with Tika so there is considerable overlap.
Give Tika a go if all you need to do is get at the document's content. If you need to do some other work with the documents then let us know and we can dig deeper to handle those carriage returns and odd characters. Yours Mark B -- View this message in context: http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/Problem-integrating-Apache-POI-into-NetBeans-tp5711909p5711954.html Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
