too many different cell formats

[Valley Boy]

What does the error message 'too many different cell formats' mean in excel?
I cannot open a spreadsheet that was sent to me by a Java interface from an
iSeries.

 

[Simon Murphy]

Common problem on larger workbooks
You have too many combinations of font, colour & borders etc

Heres a tool to fix it:
http://www.quarrell.demon.co.uk/QAid/

heres the MSDN article with solutions (basically reduce the number of format
combinations you have)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213904

cheers
Simon