We are generating large XLSX documents (only data) and we have template XLSX (styles, image, etc...).
I know XLSX is just zip, you can extract them look what is inside.
It's possible somehow to copy styles & formatting from template XLSX file to generated XLSX document (copy xl/styles.xml file and zip that again is not enough). Excel complains the file is not ok, so I think there are some consistency checks?...
Thanks
We built a Python-based tool to copy XLSX styles from one sheet to another, allowing you to essentially template the visual design of a spreadsheet and apply it to new data.
https://github.com/Sydney-Informatics-Hub/copy_xlsx_styles may solve your needs.
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I am currently trying to extract an excel file from a website and upload it into an excel worksheet using VBA. The link to where the data can be found is at the following link:
http://mis.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=12301&reportTitle=Settlement%20Point%20Prices%20at%20Resource%20Nodes,%20Hubs%20and%20Load%20Zones&showHTMLView=&mimicKey
The issue I am facing is that the excel files are located within Zip files. I eventually would like to use VBA to download all of the zip files found at that link and compile all of the excel files they contain into one single worksheet, but for now I just want to download one file.
If you can help me use VBA to download the first zip file included in the link listed above, open the zip file, extract the excel file from the zip file, extract the data from the excel file, and paste that data into another excel worksheet, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you for taking the time to help me with this issue!
I am able to find $cell->get_format() or $cell->format _hash in .xls files parser but not for xlsx format. I am also open to use any XLSX parser for reading the spreadsheet. Basically I am copying one spreadsheet to another preserving the format.
I am new to the Perl, Please bear up with me if it's very basic. The below code works fine copying in excel value to another. I am having trouble copying the format. I need to copy the format value from the reading file and then assign it to writing cell- self is the variable need to change.
The question I have asked Earlier
How to copy the format of the .xlsx cell using "Excel::Writer::XLSX" reader to the copied cell using "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel" writer?
And I am open to any other XLSX parser in case this is not the right to copy the format of the cell.
These modules cannot modify spreadsheets in place, so you need a reader and a writer. To read an XLSX file, use Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX which implements the same methods as Spreadsheet::ParseExcel but parses XLSX files, so its cells also have get_format which returns the properties listed here. To write a new spreadsheet use Excel::Writer::XLSX, which implements the same methods as Spreadsheet::WriteExcel but creates XLSX files. You would add formats to such a new sheet as described here.
I'm processing xlsx files in PHP. When I create xlsx file using openoffice with just one filled cell, the spreadsheet already has 65536 rows itself. It looks like openoffice stores all cells even if they are empty. Is there any solution I can save only as many rows/columns as they are filled? Because every library for parsing xlsx produces then wrong number of rows so I'm not able to process it correctly. Good solution would be to achieve it directly inside openoffice, or use some external tool/script (*nix based) to clean up such xlsx file if possible.
Here is one solution:
Use OpenTBS to open the XLSX and save it with or without modifications.
OpenTBS is a pure PHP tools whose purpose is to merge data with LibreOffice and Ms Office documents using the technique of templates.
Since its version 1.9.0, OpenTBS can handle with XLSX workbooks made with LibreOffice. Such XLSX workbooks may have an extra row definition which contains a repetition attribute that extends it upon the maximum limit of row number. OpenTBS simply reduce this extra extended row into a single row.
OpenTBS download page
OpenTBS demo
OpenTBS doc
Folks,
We have one requirement related to scalability for excel update.
e.g. We have Excel work book with 10 work sheets each is having huge amount of data.
Now what we want to do is replace one of the CELL in one of the sheet with 'NEW VALUE'
But with Apache POI we understood we have to load entire 'Work book' even if we have to modify data in one of the excel sheets. This is consuming huge memory and is not acceptable.
Is there any CELL level read write(immediate flush) facility or API for excel.
An XLSX file is actually a ZIP file containing multiple XML files.
You could extract the contents (but keep the folder structure intact), change only the XML file you want, compress it back, and replace the original.
Ok I have a excel template file which contains various headers, images etc.
I need to populate a number of excel files based on this template file using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
I have seen plenty of examples online how to create and modify existing excel files (both xlt and xls) however none show how to create the xls from an xlt.
The only way I can see round the problem is to open the xlt, populate the data on the workbook then save the file as an xls....
Is this the only way that this can be done?
Thanks
Instead of using xlt and xls files you can create a standard xlsx file and use unique tokens for the content you want to replace. Then you can create a new xlsx file based on your "template".
Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6E744E5-36E9-45F5-8D8C-331DF206E0D0&displaylang=en