There doesn't appear to be an equivalent yet for HSSF. You are on the right track for XSSF, I use that myself when stripping down a workbook to bare bones.
I'm not at all versed in the HSSF format, so I have no idea what it might take to implement there. As far as I can tell the binary format shares little to no structure with the XML format. On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 8:06 AM Stuart Owen <sowen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I can see how to get and create new validations, but am struggling to > see how to remove them. > > For an XSSFSheet I seem to be able to use: > > > sheet.getCTWorksheet().getDataValidations().removeDataValidation(index); > > but I don't see an equivalent for HSSFSheet. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > thanks, > > Stuart. >