I have a confidential Excel document that I want to read data from.
It is a set of 3 document, the other two work fine.
If I just read the document as I got it, it tells me it has trouble with CELL_TYPE_ERROR. There appears to be a partial patch for this, from a few years ago.
I don't think there are any tricky formula in this document. They are just rows of data, from the looks of it. Just to be sure, I copied the whole thing, and did paste special, and pasted only text and numbers. This resulted in
I have a confidential Excel document that I want to read data from. It is a set of 3 document, the other two work fine.
If I just read the document as I got it, it tells me it has trouble with CELL_TYPE_ERROR. There appears to be a partial patch for this, from a few years ago.
I don't run Windows, so I opened the document in LibreOffice. To make sure that LibreOffice in itself does not change things, I just hit save.
It did change. It appears that this error is due to some unsupported type of formula in Apache POI.
I don't think there are any tricky formula in this document. They are just rows of data, from the looks of it. Just to be sure, I copied the whole thing, and did paste special, and pasted only text and numbers. This resulted in