Bug 44069

Summary:	Excel 97 crashes when opening excel files created with HSSF
Product:	POI	Reporter:	markus scheid <markus.scheid>
Component:	HSSF	Assignee:	POI Developers List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial	Keywords:	APIBug
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
URL:	https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44049

Description markus scheid 2007-12-13 01:53:02 UTC

I worked with the poi-3.0.1-FINAL-20070705.jar and the
poi-3.0.2-beta1-20071204.jar. I had the problem that the created files with HSSF
crashes Excel 97 when I tried to open this files. With the old
poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar everthing worked just fine, apart from the problem
with the java.lang.outOfMemmory exception when amount of the rows written by
HSSF exceeds about 3500 rows. The new versions crahses Excel 97 if the user has
no write authorizations on the specific folder.

Comment 1 Nick Burch 2007-12-13 05:03:29 UTC

You could argue that excel shouldn't crash no matter what file you feed it

If the same file opens fine in other versions of excel, then you'll probably be
best off reporting a bug to Microsoft

Comment 2 David Fisher 2009-02-18 12:14:30 UTC

Without a response or further information, I am resolving this as "INVALID"

Comment 3 mametjamaanawe 2023-02-09 09:56:44 UTC

application crash

Comment 4 Axel Howind 2023-02-09 10:01:22 UTC

If you are really having problems with Excel 97 and an outdated version of POI, I suggest you update either. Otherwise, please do not reopen ancient bug reports without providing any new information.