Created attachment 25541 [details] The source code to generate the above error. The spreadsheet will be attached next. Exception in thread "main" org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParseException: Cell reference expected after sheet name at index 7. at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parseRangeable(FormulaParser.java:420) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parseRangeExpression(FormulaParser.java:266) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parseSimpleFactor(FormulaParser.java:1112) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.percentFactor(FormulaParser.java:1072) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.powerFactor(FormulaParser.java:1059) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parseUnary(FormulaParser.java:1124) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parseSimpleFactor(FormulaParser.java:1097) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.percentFactor(FormulaParser.java:1072) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.powerFactor(FormulaParser.java:1059) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.Term(FormulaParser.java:1410) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.additiveExpression(FormulaParser.java:1510) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.concatExpression(FormulaParser.java:1494) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.comparisonExpression(FormulaParser.java:1451) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.unionExpression(FormulaParser.java:1431) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parse(FormulaParser.java:1552) at org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parse(FormulaParser.java:174) at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.helpers.XSSFRowShifter.shiftFormula(XSSFRowShifter.java:182) at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.helpers.XSSFRowShifter.updateRowFormulas(XSSFRowShifter.java:152) at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.helpers.XSSFRowShifter.updateSheetFormulas(XSSFRowShifter.java:139) at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.helpers.XSSFRowShifter.updateFormulas(XSSFRowShifter.java:132) at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet.shiftRows(XSSFSheet.java:2075) at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet.shiftRows(XSSFSheet.java:2022) at t2test.PoiTest.littleTest(PoiTest.java:46) at t2test.PoiTest.main(PoiTest.java:18)
Created attachment 25542 [details] An xlsx workbook with a single, 4-row sheet. This spreadsheet was created with Excel. I removed the two extra tabs to simplify the example.
User error.