diff --git a/src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/contrib/CellUtil.java b/src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/contrib/CellUtil.java
index d18cd4159..2cb2c0897 100644
--- a/src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/contrib/CellUtil.java
+++ b/src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/ss/usermodel/contrib/CellUtil.java
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ public final class CellUtil {
 	 *@param font The Font that you want to set...
 	 */
 	public static void setFont(Cell cell, Workbook workbook, Font font) {
-		setCellStyleProperty(cell, workbook, FONT, font);
+		setCellStyleProperty(cell, workbook, FONT, font.getIndex());
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index d9eb62485..78bda68a9 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.7-SNAPSHOT" date="2010-??-??">
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">49254 - Fix CellUtils.setFont to use the correct type internally</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">49139 - Properly support 4k big block size in POIFS</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">48936 - Avoid writing malformed CDATA blocks in sharedStrings.xml</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">49026 - Added implementation for TEXT()  </action>