I have a table in Word with POI-HWPF Can I insert another table into a cell in the tabel?

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I have a table in Word with POI-HWPF. Can I insert another table into a cell in the table?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 03 '16 at 13:00

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The HWPF part of POI is not in a stable state. You will likely not be able to insert a table into a table cell.

I developed an improved HWPF library for one of my clients so I know about the internal details. The files created by the public HWPF are likely to crash Word if they are non-trivial. Having one table is already non-trivial and modifying nested tables will definitely produce invalid output files.

I don't know, whether you can use RTF files for nested tables. But if using RTF is an option for you, it may be worth trying. With doc files and HWPF you are out of luck.

answered Mar 03 '16 at 13:00

Rainer Schwarze

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Thanks,I've worked it out! Freemarker + Xml can make it much easier – tracis Mar 14 '16 at 10:32
@tracis Glad you found a way around it. I did not know about Freemarker - interesting project - thanks for mentioning :-) – Rainer Schwarze Mar 14 '16 at 15:32

I have a table in Word with POI-HWPF Can I insert another table into a cell in the tabel?

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