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  • AutoSizeColumn produces narrower columns since 2.8.0 (SkiaSharp migration): long text gets clipped
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1893 ·

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  • Investigation on IronOCR
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#108 ·

  • NPOI 2.8.1 fails to load due to missing SkiaSharp 3.119.0 assembly
    Open
    bug cicd

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1877 · 4 comments ·

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  • Investigation on IronPDF
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#107 · 3 comments ·

  • Excel Function Implementation IV
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1873 ·

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  • Infinite loop on a malformed .xls whose declared stream size exceeds its block chain
    Open
    bug hssf security

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1844 · 3 comments ·

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  • Dependency on SkiaSharp 3.119.2 massively bloats package size.
    Open
    cicd need-investigation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1836 · 7 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • net472: strong-named NPOI.Core cannot load unsigned ExcelFinancialFunctions — all financial functions throw FileLoadException
    Open
    cicd formula

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1830 · 2 comments ·

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  • NPOI.POIFS.FileSystem.NotOLE2FileException: Invalid header signature; read 0x0000000000000000, expected 0xE11AB1A1E011CFD0
    Open
    bug hssf

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1818 ·

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  • RTF Metadata Support
    May be free again @Flamifly claimed this 150 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    nissl-lab/toxy#103 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Support for extending the service with custom parsers
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#102 ·

  • Create F# Type Provider for Toxy
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#96 ·

  • Extract Table from Email
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#91 · 1 comment ·

  • Using Stream internally for parsing
    Open
    enhancement question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#90 · 10 comments ·

  • Toxy Promotion Plan
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#87 · 11 comments ·

  • EML Extraction Support
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#77 · 18 comments ·

  • Create Claude Skill for Toxy
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#75 ·

  • XWPF Chart Implementation (Word Chart support)
    May be free again @tonyqus claimed this 231 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    nissl-lab/npoi#1732 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Open Document support
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#69 · 10 comments ·

  • Discussion about System.Text.Xml
    Open
    msft Research

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/toxy#68 · 15 comments ·

  • AltChunk containing docx file corrupts document
    Open
    enhancement xwpf

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1670 · 2 comments ·

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  • Stacked Column Chart not currently supported?
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1648 ·

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  • sheet.ShiftRows throws System.InvalidOperationException:“Cannot add merged region B3:C3 to sheet because it overlaps with an existing merged region (B3:C3).”
    May be free again @antony-liu claimed this 269 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug xssf

    nissl-lab/npoi#1646 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • `sheet.CopyTo` is not copying the style properly.
    Open
    bug xssf

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1586 · 4 comments ·

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  • Color of legend does not match the color of column in chart if custom colors are used for each column
    Open
    chart need-investigation xssf

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1582 ·

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  • Corrupted after calling ShiftRows function to remove the row where the shared formula is defined
    Open
    need-investigation xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1490 ·

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  • Unable to Evaluate Formula while referencing an external workbook
    Open
    formula need-investigation xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1442 · 6 comments ·

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  • Adding rows of data into existing xlsx file with pivot tables and charts result with unusable file.
    Open
    bug file_error xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1293 · 7 comments ·

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  • Support DOCM file type
    Open
    enhancement help-wanted xwpf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1250 · 2 comments ·

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  • Dropdown support
    Open
    enhancement help-wanted vba xwpf

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1243 ·

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  • A built-in way to validate a cell value based on Excel data validation constraints?
    Open
    question xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1231 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Unable to Generate Excel from a template with Pivot & Filters
    Open
    bug file_error xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1201 · 5 comments ·

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  • How can I reaplce text in word document include image?
    Open
    enhancement help-wanted xwpf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1169 ·

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  • Error with filters on a pivot table causes a corrupt sheet and memory error
    Open
    bug file_error xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1155 · 6 comments ·

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  • MoveCell is not implemented in XSSF
    Open
    enhancement help-wanted xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1113 · 2 comments ·

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  • ShiftRows breaks the height of the underlying rows
    Open
    hssf need-investigation xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1039 ·

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  • Support async-only streams
    Open
    api enhancement help-wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#1021 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Custom color
    May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
    enhancement help-wanted xssf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#979 · 1 comment ·

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  • Performance issue when adding copied rows
    Open
    help-wanted need-investigation performance xwpf

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#975 · 1 comment ·

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  • Open an existing xlsx file. If LastRowNum is 15, add a picture on line 16 .IPicture Resize() method locks application execution
    Open
    need-investigation

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#952 · 1 comment ·

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  • NPOI having issues evaluating cascade formulas (formula cells referencing other formula cells)
    Open
    need-investigation

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#914 · 7 comments ·

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  • XSSF ShiftRows cause shared formula mismatch.
    Open
    need-investigation

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#901 · 3 comments ·

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  • Column Groups Collapsed on Column Sizing
    Open
    need-investigation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#822 ·

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  • Cell color info is not correct. How to get correct info?
    Open
    bug help-wanted need-investigation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#820 · 6 comments ·

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  • Combine the paragraphs and table contens of two docx with NPOI
    Open
    enhancement xwpf

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#773 · 3 comments ·

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  • Append or Insert an embeded file into word file
    Open
    enhancement xwpf

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#755 · 2 comments ·

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  • Cell address in shapes was removed when I create a new Excel file by using XSSFWorkbook
    Open
    bug file_error

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#717 · 3 comments ·

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  • WriteProtectWorkbook record in HSSFWorkbook doesn't work
    Open
    bug hssf

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#716 · 1 comment ·

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  • Export/Convert Excel to PDF
    May be free again @Bykiev claimed this 515 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Commercial enhancement

    nissl-lab/npoi#667 · 15 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Dynamic array support in NPOI
    Open
    enhancement formula help-wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nissl-lab/npoi#663 · 1 comment ·

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