diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
index 829fb4d18..ef6511128 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 
 		<!-- Don't forget to update status.xml too! -->
         <release version="3.0.2-FINAL" date="2007-??-??">
+            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">41064 - [PATCH] Support for String continue records</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">27511 - [PATCH] Support for data validation, via DVRecord and DVALRecord</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43877 and 39512 - Fix for handling mixed OBJ and CONTINUE records.</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43807 - Throw an IllegalArgumentException if asked to create a merged region with invalid columns or rows, rather than writing out a corrupt file</action>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 18a305017..d09ccb87c 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 	<!-- Don't forget to update changes.xml too! -->
     <changes>
         <release version="3.0.2-FINAL" date="2007-??-??">
+            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">41064 - [PATCH] Support for String continue records</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">27511 - [PATCH] Support for data validation, via DVRecord and DVALRecord</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43877 - Fix for handling mixed OBJ and CONTINUE records</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">39512 - Fix for handling mixed OBJ and CONTINUE records</action>
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/RecordFactory.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/RecordFactory.java
index 984291cdb..cf705a316 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/RecordFactory.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/RecordFactory.java
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ public class RecordFactory
                         } else if (record.getSid() == ContinueRecord.sid &&
                                    (lastRecord instanceof DrawingGroupRecord)) {
                             ((DrawingGroupRecord)lastRecord).processContinueRecord(((ContinueRecord)record).getData());
+                        } else if (record.getSid() == ContinueRecord.sid &&
+                        			(lastRecord instanceof StringRecord)) {
+                        	((StringRecord)lastRecord).processContinueRecord(((ContinueRecord)record).getData());
                         } else if (record.getSid() == ContinueRecord.sid) {
                           if (lastRecord instanceof UnknownRecord) {
                             //Gracefully handle records that we dont know about,
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/StringRecord.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/StringRecord.java
index a880d7235..b3a42aaba 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/StringRecord.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/record/StringRecord.java
@@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ public class StringRecord
             field_3_string = StringUtil.getFromCompressedUnicode(data, 0, field_1_string_length);
         }
     }
+    
+    public void processContinueRecord(byte[] data) {
+    	if(isUnCompressedUnicode()) {
+    		field_3_string += StringUtil.getFromUnicodeLE(data, 0, field_1_string_length - field_3_string.length());
+    	} else {
+    		field_3_string += StringUtil.getFromCompressedUnicode(data, 0, field_1_string_length - field_3_string.length());
+    	}
+    }
 
     public boolean isInValueSection()
     {
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
index 9dd8e4838..673b5246e 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ public class StringUtil {
 		final int offset,
 		final int len) {
 		try {
-			return new String(string, offset, len, "ISO-8859-1");
+			int len_to_use = Math.min(len, string.length - offset);
+			return new String(string, offset, len_to_use, "ISO-8859-1");
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			throw new InternalError(); /* unreachable */
 		}
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/data/StringContinueRecords.xls b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/data/StringContinueRecords.xls
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f2ada9eb2
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/data/StringContinueRecords.xls differ
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/extractor/TestExcelExtractor.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/extractor/TestExcelExtractor.java
index 027495a1b..0aef5c765 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/extractor/TestExcelExtractor.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/extractor/TestExcelExtractor.java
@@ -68,6 +68,19 @@ public class TestExcelExtractor extends TestCase {
 		);
 	}
 	
+	public void testwithContinueRecords() throws Exception {
+		String path = System.getProperty("HSSF.testdata.path");
+		FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(path + File.separator + "StringContinueRecords.xls");
+		
+		ExcelExtractor extractor = new ExcelExtractor(new POIFSFileSystem(fin));
+		
+		extractor.getText();
+		
+		// Has masses of text
+		// Until we fixed bug #41064, this would've
+		//   failed by now
+		assertTrue(extractor.getText().length() > 40960);
+	}
 	
 	public void testStringConcat() throws Exception {
 		String path = System.getProperty("HSSF.testdata.path");