poi reports an Duplicate PageSettingsBlock record exception when reading the xls file exported by the company"s reporting system.
org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFormatException: Duplicate PageSettingsBlock record (sid=0x29)
    at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.aggregates.PageSettingsBlock.checkNotPresent(PageSettingsBlock.java:224)
    at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.aggregates.PageSettingsBlock.readARecord(PageSettingsBlock.java:189)
    at org.apache.poi.hssf.record.aggregates.PageSettingsBlock.addLateRecords(PageSettingsBlock.java:636)
    at org.apache.poi.hssf.model.InternalSheet.<init>(InternalSheet.java:191)
    at org.apache.poi.hssf.model.InternalSheet.createSheet(InternalSheet.java:127)
    at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:291)
    at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:88) then save the file as below and you can read it. 
 Source xls file is not convenient to upload. 
