Dave, I am excited that there is a "yes" answer for my question! ...and that you gave it to me so darn quickly, too.
This sounds perfect! I look forward to coming back here if we run into any limitations so I can scour everyone's brain some more ;-) (Don't worry: I like to read/do proofs of concept, also). Michael F. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, David Fisher <dfis...@jmlafferty.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I saw in the list archives that in 2002 someone was thinking about > writing > > something for POI for spreadsheets to allow recalculation of formulas in > a > > sheet/workbook. Did that ever get done? I am having trouble finding > > evidence one way or the other. > > Yes, you can do that. See http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/eval.html > > There are issues you may encounter like User Defined Functions and VBA > Macros, but there are ways around those if you are willing to work through > the issues. > > > Also if someone could give me a hint how to do a text search on the list > > archives I would appreciate knowing that too. (I used google and got a > > hit...is that the best way it's done?) > > Here is one way: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.user > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.devel > > Search box is at the bottom. > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > Michael F. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org > >
