Hi again Nick,

The XLS extraction is going great.  For XLSX can I use the same mechanism?

Thanks,

- Chris

On 1 Nov 2012, at 17:25, Chris Bamford wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> 
> On 1 Nov 2012, at 16:11, Nick Burch wrote:
> 
> Yes. Formulas in Excel (.xls) are stored with two parts. One is the last 
> value (number or string) that the formula evaluated to. The other is the 
> formula itself, stored in a parsed format. With the false flag, you get the 
> last result Excel calculated returned. With true, we try to turn the parsed 
> formula tokens back into a string. For your case, the formula is actually 
> shared across multiple cells, and another bit of POI is objecting because the 
> sharing is expected to be resolved but hasn't been
> 
> Thanks for the clear explanation.  It would seem to me that returning the 
> last result Excel calculated (setting it to false) is likely to be what is 
> expected most of the time.  It could well be good enough for what I need.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> - Chris
> 
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