From d26d6811fd718021ac84b03d288100209bf932bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 03:13:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40548

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@513605 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFWorkbook.java | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFWorkbook.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFWorkbook.java
index 875e261af..9ce9f171b 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFWorkbook.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFWorkbook.java
@@ -750,11 +750,14 @@ public class HSSFWorkbook
         NameRecord r = null;
         while ((r = (NameRecord) workbook.findNextRecordBySid(NameRecord.sid, index)) != null)
         {
-            int nameRecordSheetIndex = workbook.getSheetIndexFromExternSheetIndex(r.getEqualsToIndexToSheet() - 1);
-            if (isRowColHeaderRecord( r ) && nameRecordSheetIndex == sheetIndex)
-            {
-                return index;
-            }
+            int indexToSheet = r.getEqualsToIndexToSheet() -1;
+            if(indexToSheet > -1) { //ignore "GLOBAL" name records
+                int nameRecordSheetIndex = workbook.getSheetIndexFromExternSheetIndex(indexToSheet);
+                if (isRowColHeaderRecord( r ) && nameRecordSheetIndex == sheetIndex)
+                {
+                    return index;
+                }
+            } 
             index++;
         }