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Subject:    Re: Identifying Combo boxes in excel sheets
From:       Sewwandi <sewdil () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-11-18 17:31:02
Message-ID: AANLkTimsgL8RUbuEofFM=CjTRaC-jRfoaMVaXTNnpuje () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thanks a lot Mark, I will try to follow up your suggestion.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Mark Beardsley
<markbrdsly@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I do not think that this is going to work for you because that mechanism is,
> at least as far as I am aware, the one used to create a new validation
> rather than capture an existing one from the sheet. If you are working with
> the older binary file format and HSSF, then it would be best to take a look
> at the Microsoft file format specification to see where the validation list
> information is stored. Then you will have to look into the core HSSF code to
> see where that record is unpacked and add in the necessary support for
> recovering lists. I do not think it is going to be as simple as calling the
> existing methods within HSSF; but of course, I could well be very wrong.
> 
> Yours
> 
> Mark B
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