Obtain textbox value from Excel in Java
I have an Excel file and I need to read a value from a textbox inside that Excel file. I am using org.apache.poi library and I tried to obtain the value in the following way: List<HSSFObjectData> obj=workbook.getAllEmbeddedObjects(); for (int i = 0; i < obj.size(); i++) { HSSFTextbox t = (HSSFTextbox) obj.get(i); } Unfortunetly I couldn't cast HSSFTextbox to a HSSFObjectData element. Does anyone know how could this be done? Maybe you can do like this: try { InputStream input = new FileInputStream("qa-textbox.xls"); POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(input); HSSFWorkbook wb = new