I have no idea and have never encountered anything before that prevented PHPExcel from reading a cell's value without throwing at least some kind of exception.... but formatting won't have any affect on this whatsoever, because getValue() is reading the raw cell value
Is it possible to provide a spreadsheet file and reference to a cell in that file that demonstrates this problem?
Is it possible to provide a spreadsheet file and reference to a cell in that file that demonstrates this problem?