<![CDATA[poi - JBay Solutions - The Dev Blog]]>http://blog.jbaysolutions.com/Ghost 0.7Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:15:05 GMT60<![CDATA[Apache POI, translating Excel column number to letter]]>Recently I had to write some code to generate excel files using Apache POI. One of the files was fairly complex and used formulas in a few cells.

I found myself spending a few hours searching for a way to translate the indexed column numbers that POI uses to the

]]>http://blog.jbaysolutions.com/2012/06/08/apache-poi-translating-excel-column-number-to-letter-5/8ff78aea-0a24-46cd-b68b-91e61266a0feFri, 08 Jun 2012 16:08:19 GMTRecently I had to write some code to generate excel files using Apache POI. One of the files was fairly complex and used formulas in a few cells.

I found myself spending a few hours searching for a way to translate the indexed column numbers that POI uses to the column letters I needed in those formulas.

It turns out the solution is quite simple, you just have to use org.apache.poi.hssf.util.CellReference:

String columnLetter = CellReference.convertNumToColString(columnNumber);


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