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Thanks for the explanation. The POI documentation is a little subpar, and does not carry nearly enough examples. 
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Thanks for the explanation. The POI documentation is a little subpar, and does not carry nearly enough examples.

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Hi experts, I have a question about using the POI framework to push data out to a spreadsheet having merged cell regions. I've read the poi documentation and I am fine as long as I am trying to push data out to a single cell. For example<br />
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HSSFSheet sheet = wb.getSheet(&quot;TDP&quot;);<br />
HSSFRow row = sheet.getRow(3);<br />
HSSFCell cell = row.createCell(column); &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
cell.setCellValue(&quot;data&quot;);<wbr /><br />
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works just fine.<br />
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but putting data into a merged region is quite different entirely and not working for me. I have an Excel template that<br />
has merged cells that cover (A4..H4) and (I4..P4) respectively. I want to data into each to prefill a template according to the users desired layout. I looked at the Region object and that looked promising, but it's MergedRegionAt method takes only a single argument, seemingly a row. So how can you programmatically specify a range and then put data in that range?
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Hi experts, I have a question about using the POI framework to push data out to a spreadsheet having merged cell regions. I've read the poi documentation and I am fine as long as I am trying to push data out to a single cell. For example

HSSFSheet sheet = wb.getSheet("TDP");
HSSFRow row = sheet.getRow(3);
HSSFCell cell = row.createCell(column);		
cell.setCellValue("data");

works just fine.

but putting data into a merged region is quite different entirely and not working for me. I have an Excel template that
has merged cells that cover (A4..H4) and (I4..P4) respectively. I want to data into each to prefill a template according to the users desired layout. I looked at the Region object and that looked promising, but it's MergedRegionAt method takes only a single argument, seemingly a row. So how can you programmatically specify a range and then put data in that range?

Putting data into merged cells using POI

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