my Excel sheet seems like what you see above. I'm using Apache POI.
I need to create a XML element for each register you see. Using the Borders that you see. How can I get the border information of a specific cell?
I tried many code but they use the workbook and gets its style. I want to be able to get Cell border of one specific Cell.
System.out.println(workbook.getCellStyleAt(0).getBorderLeft());
Excel file:
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Is there any way to set style for all next cells in excel worksheet? Like for the rest of the document after certain cell?
I am using Apache POI 3.9 for exporting data to excel worksheet. Client wants colored font for invalid data. Everything is running fine, but sometimes, when I put text in empty cells in "INFORMATION" column, it makes font colored red, even after reseting cell style or explicitly asking for condition and then setting default cell style. Youre more likely to get my idea from pic of code.
Ive uploaded some pic of excel too. Hope it helps. It starts on row 37, text somehow changes color even after not running through setting conditions. I havent recognized any pattern in there.
I tried to change conditions, change cell style setting location in code... Had no effect.
Edit: It seems like the problem is not in AP but in Excel itself. It looks like the font color is changed after user input and its caused by autoformatting that is based on the context. So only option here is to change style of previous data. Could not find any other solution to this.
We have to process inbound client Excel files. One client highlights changed data in yellow. I have been asked to find the highlighted yellow cells, and import only the rows that have changes.
I am using Alteryx, but that is largely immaterial; The problem is not how to code this, but how to find the relevant highlighted rows and columns in the Excel internal file structure.
I know that an Excel workbook is a zipped set of XML files. I can copy the .xlsx file to .zip, and expand it, and process the individual XML worksheets, for example I can load ".\xl\worksheets\sheet1.xml". In there, I can see the cell locations, and I can see some XML attributes. If the cell has a style, it seems to get the s="" attribute.
I assume this relates to a style setting. I can open the style sheet, but I cannot relate the value in the s attribute to entries in the style sheet file. For example, I have a value of s="219" for a highlighted cell, but there are not 219 styles in the style file, so the s value is not an index.
Does anyone know how Excel files work 'under the hood', so that I can relate the worksheet cell data to the style data to find highlighted cells?
I am not looking for "have you tried an Excel macro?" or "use Python?" or other suggestions/guesses. Please, with great respect to your time and expertise, only answer if you know about Excel's internal file structure and you know the answer to this particular, admittedly very niche, query.
How can I get the current Fill Color in the ribbon using VBA? I like to manually select the Fill color to highlight entire rows with. I know I can highlight an entire row with code like foo.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = 3. However, instead of setting it to 3, I want to set it to the user's currently selected Fill Color in the ribbon.
I found a similar thread for Microsoft Word that uses Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex, but I have not found one for Microsoft Excel.
Edit: Sorry for the duplicate question. I am hoping there’s a better answer that doesn’t require an active selection first. If not I’ll accept Jonathan’s answer. Currently I am just highlighting the current cell with CellFillColorPicker, getting that cell’s color and then highlighting the row with that color.
This question appears to be similar to this one: VBA - use color already select in Excel to fill cell interior
It looks like this is the code that you want:
Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso "CellFillColorPicker"
I'm building an Excel xlsx spreadsheet using the office open XML SDK. I can add dates to the sheet by converting them to their "AO" date representation and setting the Cell Value to number. I can't, however, figure out how to add the dd-mm-yy formatting to the cell.
I've seen a lot of complicated examples where you have to create a stylesheet from scratch, add the format to it and then reference that format, but I figure there must be an easier way. I'm creating my sheet from a template, and Excel already has builtin formats/styles. IMO I should be able to just load the stylesheet from the excel file I'm using as a template and then apply the format. Can't figure out how to do it though.
If you're creating an xlsx from scratch you can't avoid creating the style sheet. You minimally need a style sheet and cell format element. The cell format element can reference a built-in date format in which case you can avoid the custom number format, but if you want a date format that isn't built-in you need a number format element too.
If you're creating an xlsx from a template xlsx, then you can reference a cell format that's already defined, but it can be very sensitive since the references are based only on index, so you are safer looking through the defined cell formats to find the one that matches the date format you want as opposed to hard-coding the cell format index.
Try this - I used it when I was trying to make my own number formats. It's a good example:
Advanced Styling in Excel OpenXML
You will still have to create a style sheet but this is a very good place to start. He has quite a few styles in his as he demonstrates what can be done. Your style sheet could be lots simpler if you only want the one format.
Also have a quick look at the list in this post. Your format may be built into Excel already.
Built in Styles for Excel
I am trying to use a VBA macro (for Office 2003) to do the following:
In Excel, the user will select a range of cells
In Word the user will call the macro (via a button or shortcut) to insert the selected Excel range as an embedded object
The code is not the problem so far, my problems are:
Given that the user is working in a Word document, most likely will use the same fonts in Excel
When Excel range was inserted in Word and they both use the same font names and sizes, they look different inside Word ( fonts look as if they stretched a bit)
Styling Cell borders in Excel is not like styling cell borders in Word
I do appreciate any advice on this regards
When you paste as an Excel Worksheet Object, what Word is actually displaying is an image created by Excel. Notice that you can't select any text, for example. Word appears to be distorting the image ever so slightly, so that the fonts won't line up.
Edit: I can't speak for Office 2003, but Office 2007 defaults to the HTML format using PasteExcelTable. The exact macro statement is
Selection.PasteExcelTable False, False, False
This will give formatting that is compatible with Word, but unfortunately the data is not live and won't get updated as the spreadsheet is changed. If your requirements don't include live update, try this method.
Is it possible to have the macro creating a table out of the cells (as normally happens when you manually copy them), rather than inserting an Excel Object.
The best visual results results can be achieved by using Selection.CopyPicture(Appearance, Format); however, you will not be able to edit the data inside Word as you will only get a picture.