Situation: According to the limition HSSF cannot support rich text cells, after inserting the rich text cell and deleting it, the HSSF still throw exception "NegativeArraySizeException". Procedure: 1. Using HSSF to access a Excel file and get the data successfully 2. Add two font types in the one cell of Excel file to let the HSSF to throw the exception 3. Delete the rich text cell 4. Using HSSF to access the Excel file again Result: HSSF still throw the exception "NegativeArraySizeException" Also, the exception "NegativeArraySizeException" is not suitable to description this problem.
HEAD now has rich text support. Jason
*** Bug 32286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***