> On Oct 31, 2021, at 10:27 AM, Andreas Reichel
> <andr...@manticore-projects.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
>> On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 09:21 -0600, Rob Sargent wrote:
>> Is this really the answer? Isn’t the 31 character constraint rather
>> archaic, even if long sheet names truly are counter-productive? Why
>> “31”?
>
> This is not on POI, but solely Microsoft UI programming.
> As far as I understand, the file format supports longer sheet names and
> better programs also are able to use those -- but MS Excel UI would
> throw problems and also silently trim the names (when entered or read
> from file?).
>
> Also: the problem was not about the trimming itself, but rather on
> trimming SILENTLY and with COLLISIONS.
>
> Warm regards
> Andreas
Thanks for the clarification.
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