From bffd3722a2fba8da4518e56a3f10a2f12a8bb8de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Vladimirov <sergey@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:28:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1149617 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../apache/poi/hwpf/converter/AbstractWordConverter.java    | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/AbstractWordConverter.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/AbstractWordConverter.java
index dbb337a8f2..fc9ece7a51 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/AbstractWordConverter.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/AbstractWordConverter.java
@@ -132,7 +132,11 @@ public abstract class AbstractWordConverter
         TableCell upperCell = null;
         for ( int r1 = r - 1; r1 >= 0; r1-- )
         {
-            final TableCell prevCell = table.getRow( r1 ).getCell( c );
+            final TableRow row = table.getRow( r1 );
+            if ( row == null || c >= row.numCells() )
+                continue;
+
+            final TableCell prevCell = row.getCell( c );
             if ( prevCell != null && prevCell.isFirstVerticallyMerged() )
             {
                 upperCell = prevCell;