--- Avik Sengupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excel stores all ALL numbers internally as binary > floating point > numbers. Based on the formatting, it decides how > many decimals etc to > display. Note that the formatting is stored > separately, and the > representation is only decided at runtime.. it is > NOT stored in the > file.
I understand what you're saying, but I guess I'm confused about how Excel knows how many decimal points were entered in the original entry and knows how to replicate them when redisplaying the file unless it keeps some information about them in the file. > > For 'general' formats, excel > does some > heuristics, so you might have to do that as well. > Are there any details about the 'heuristics' ? Is there any documentation that you can point me to that might describe them ? Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
