poi: serial letter xls

[OL <ol...@gmx.net>]

Hi there!

in short:
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How can I force POI to add a nice Excel-Header
in my POI-created Excel-document?

8FIB
Excel.Sheet.8



why:
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I use POI to create and write data to Excel-documents.
In Word you can use such Excel-documents as "databases"
to create serial letters.
Unfortunately Word (in different versions) does not
recognize any serial letter column in my Excel-document.

BUT when I open the Excel, simply push save and close it again,
Word now just works fine creating a serial letter with
my Excel-document.

The difference between the POI-created Excel-document and
the additionally saved one is, that the latter one has a nice
Excel-header which contains:

8FIB
Excel.Sheet.8

With this header Word will recognize my POI-created
Excel-document as a serial letter database.


thanx for any hint!!

Oliver Leimig

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