customizing imported excel file from delphi - excel

Question

I write a code to export an excel file from a dbgrid. Here's the following code :
var i, x:integer;
sfile:string;
begin
XlApp:=createoleobject('Excel.Application');
XlBook:=XlApp.WorkBooks.Add;
XlSheet:= XlBook.worksheets.add;
for i:=0 to dbgrid1.fieldcount-1 do begin
xlsheet.cells[1,i+1].value:=dbgrid1.columns[i].title.caption;
end;
zquery1.first;
x:=1;
while not zquery1.eof do begin
xlsheet.cells[x+1,1].value:=x;
for i:=1 to dbgrid1.fieldcount-1 do begin
xlsheet.cells[x+1, i+1].value:=dbgrid1.fields[i].text;
end;
zquery1.next;
inc(x);
end;
xlapp.visible:=true;
end;
it works just fine, but the table is so messy.
How can I customize this excel file so that each column give the correct width value according to each data?
thanks.

Answer 1

An Excel Range has an AutoFit method that will do this for you in a single call, and doesn't require you to experiment to figure out what width you need to assign to each column.
Here's an example (tested in Delphi 2007) that creates a two-dimensional variant array, populates it with sample text that is too wide to fit a default Excel cell, assigns that text to an Excel range, and autowidths all cells within that range to the proper width for the text (similar to what happens when you double-click the divider between columns in Excel). You should be able to easily adapt both this way to autowidth the text (and the much faster way of transferring data into Excel via automation) to work with your code.
For demo purposes, I've put the code into a TButton.OnClick event handler.
uses
ComObj, ActiveX;
procedure TForm3.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
xls, wb, Range: OLEVariant;
arrData: Variant;
RowCount, ColCount, i, j: Integer;
begin
{create variant array where we'll copy our data}
RowCount := 10;
ColCount := 10;
arrData := VarArrayCreate([1, RowCount, 1, ColCount], varVariant);
{fill array}
for i := 1 to RowCount do
for j := 1 to ColCount do
arrData[i, j] := Format('This is test text #%d-%d', [i, j]);
{initialize an instance of Excel}
xls := CreateOLEObject('Excel.Application');
{create workbook}
wb := xls.Workbooks.Add;
{retrieve a range where data must be placed}
Range := wb.WorkSheets[1].Range[wb.WorkSheets[1].Cells[1, 1],
wb.WorkSheets[1].Cells[RowCount, ColCount]];
{ copy data from the array into an Excel Range, and then use AutoFit to size them }
Range.Value := arrData;
Range.Columns.AutoFit;
{show Excel with our data}
xls.Visible := True;
end;

Answer 2

You can set the width of each column using Columns[i].ColumnWidth.
var
ColRange: Variant;
ColRange := xlsheet.Columns;
ColRange.Columns[1].ColumnWidth := 12;