countif expression not updating in Excel 2003

[Serena Hartoog <SH...@ecrio.com>]

I have a small spread sheet that looks like this in psedo-cvs format:
  ,abc
  ,abc
  ,abc
  ,abc
=countif(A1:A4,"Pass"),=A5

The formulas in the last row are, of course, not valid CVS.

If I create this spread sheet in Excel 2000 and run the code below,
it works find.

	String fileName = "input2000.xls";
	String outName = "output.xls";
	String sheetName = "Sheet1";
	int rowNum = 1;
	short colNum = 0;
	String result = "Pass";
	POIFSFileSystem fs =
		new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream(fileName));
	HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fs);
	HSSFSheet sheet = wb.getSheet(sheetName);
	HSSFRow row = sheet.getRow(rowNum);
	HSSFCell cell = row.getCell(colNum);
	HSSFRichTextString val = new HSSFRichTextString(result);
	cell.setCellValue(val);
	FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outName);
	wb.write(out);
	out.close();

But if I create this spread sheet in Excel 2003 and run the above
code, then the formulas are not updated in the output.xls file when
I open it. There is no error indication, but the counts show zero.
If I select each formula and hit return, then it will recompute 
the correct value.

I am using poi-3.0-alpha3-20061212.jar file.

Is anyone aware of this problem? Does anyone know a work around.

Serena

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