Repaired Records : Cell information from worksheet created from scratch

Question

I\'m receiving an error when opening my OpenXML created spreadsheet. The error is as follows.

Repaired Records: Cell information from /xl/worksheets/sheet.xml p         


        

Answer 1

If you are adding a string to a cell rather than a number (or a string that can be converted to a number) then you should use an inline string or a shared string instead of the CellValue. You can only use CellValue if the value is numeric.

The XML generated when using CellValue looks something like:

  
    12345
  

when you use an inline string it looks like:

  
    
      Foo
    
  

note the "is" node for inline string and that the cell type attribute is set to "inlineStr".

Here is C# code to generate correct XML for a cell containing text:

cell.DataType = CellValues.InlineString;
cell.InlineString = new InlineString() { Text = new Text(textToInsert) };

From what I have read using shared strings is preferable but using inline strings avoids the error and looks just fine when you open the file in Excel.