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

use the code
cell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING);
before reading the string value, Which can help you.
I am using POI version 3.17 Beta1 version, sure the version compatibility also..