I believe it can be mapped to a BlankRecord because the cell itself still contains cell formatting.
-----Original Message----- From: Haggerty, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:28 AM To: poi-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: how to find style in existing workbook for cell position with no cell When a cell position (some row/column position such as 0,0) in an existing workbook contains a cell, then its style can be found with HSSFCell.getCellStyle(). When a cell position does not contain a cell (HSSFRow.getCell() returns null), how can I find the style that would be applied by Excel when a value is set into that cell position? For example, a column can be formatted to have a specified fill color. When working in Excel manually, a value typed into a cell in that column will retain that fill color. I want to use HSSF to find that column's style, create a new style based on it, and make some changes to it. I cannot simply create a new style, because the default style does not represent the column formatting, and the fill color is lost. This question was asked by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22 Feb 2006 in this mailing list, with the subject of "[Q] Excel -> HSFFCell, loosing style" but no response was made. Possible lead: Will the org.apache.poi.hssf.record.BlankRecord class help in this case? An extended format record can be retrieved from this, but how can a cell position be mapped to a BlankRecord? Thank you. --Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
