Cannot get a text value from a numeric cell “Poi”

Question

I\'m trying to consume data from a spreadsheet in Excel, but always of this error, already tried formatting the worksheet to text and number and still the error persists.

Answer 1

Using the DataFormatter this issue is resolved. Thanks to "Gagravarr" for the initial post.

DataFormatter formatter = new DataFormatter();

String empno = formatter.formatCellValue(cell0);