diff --git a/components/fpspreadsheet/source/common/fpsopendocument.pas b/components/fpspreadsheet/source/common/fpsopendocument.pas
index db88d8127..e9e8a53c0 100644
--- a/components/fpspreadsheet/source/common/fpsopendocument.pas
+++ b/components/fpspreadsheet/source/common/fpsopendocument.pas
@@ -3789,6 +3789,7 @@ begin
     [ARow, ACol, AFormatIndex])
   );
  {$ENDIF}
+  AColsRepeated := 0;
 
   // Workaround for Excel files converted to ods by Calc: These files are
   // expanded to fill the entire max worksheet. They also have single empty