To download the trial version of EasyXLS Excel Library, press the below button:
If you already own a license key, you may login and download EasyXLS from your account.
Install the downloaded EasyXLS installer for v8.6 or earlier.
Step 2: License file setup
Step required for EasyXLS v9.0 or later.
If you are using a trial, generate a trial license file from EasyXLS trials page. The trial license is valid for 30-days.
If you own a license key, you may login to the account that purchased the license and generate the license file from: https://www.easyxls.com/my-orders
Setup the license file into your project using these guidelines.
Step 3: Create a Java project
If don't have a project already, create a new Java project.
Step 4: Include EasyXLS library into project
EasyXLS.jar must be added to external libraries into your project for Eclipse or to your application CLASSPATH.
EasyXLS.jar can be found: - Inside the downloaded archive at Step 1 for EasyXLS v9.0 or later - Under installation path for EasyXLS v8.6 or earlier, in "Lib" folder.
Step 5: Run Java code that exports an Excel file with header and footer
Execute the following Java code that exports an Excel file with the header for center section containing the file name and a custom text, header for right section containing the date and time and footer for center section containing the page number and total number of pages.
package testexceljava;
import java.awt.Color;
import EasyXLS.*;
import EasyXLS.Constants.*;
/* --------------------------------------------------------------
| Tutorial 08
|
| This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file in Java having
| multiple sheets. The first sheet is filled with data
| and the cells are formatted and locked.
| The column header has comments.
| The first sheet has header & footer.
* ----------------------------------------------------------- */public class Tutorial08 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
System.out.println("Tutorial 08");
System.out.println("----------");
// Create an instance of the class that exports Excel files, having two sheets
ExcelDocument workbook = new ExcelDocument(2);
// Set the sheet names
workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0).setSheetName("First tab");
workbook.easy_getSheetAt(1).setSheetName("Second tab");
// Protect first sheet
workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0).setSheetProtected(true);
// Get the table of data for the first worksheet
ExcelTable xlsFirstTable = ((ExcelWorksheet)workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0)).easy_getExcelTable();
// Create the formatting style for the header
ExcelStyle xlsStyleHeader = new ExcelStyle("Verdana", 8, true, true, Color.YELLOW);
xlsStyleHeader.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
xlsStyleHeader.setBorderColors(Color.GRAY, Color.GRAY, Color.GRAY, Color.GRAY);
xlsStyleHeader.setBorderStyles(Border.BORDER_MEDIUM, Border.BORDER_MEDIUM,
Border.BORDER_MEDIUM, Border.BORDER_MEDIUM);
xlsStyleHeader.setHorizontalAlignment(Alignment.ALIGNMENT_CENTER);
xlsStyleHeader.setVerticalAlignment(Alignment.ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM);
xlsStyleHeader.setWrap(true);
xlsStyleHeader.setDataType(DataType.STRING);
// Add data in cells for report headerfor (int column=0; column<5; column++)
{
xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, column).setValue("Column " + (column + 1));
xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, column).setStyle(xlsStyleHeader);
// Add comment for report header cells
xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, column).setComment("This is column no " + (column + 1));
}
xlsFirstTable.easy_getRowAt(0).setHeight(30);
// Add data in cells for report valuesfor (int row=0; row<100; row++)
{
for (int column=0; column<5; column++)
{
xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(row+1, column).setValue("Data " + (row + 1) + ", " + (column + 1));
}
}
// Create a formatting style for cells
ExcelStyle xlsStyleData = new ExcelStyle();
xlsStyleData.setHorizontalAlignment(Alignment.ALIGNMENT_LEFT);
xlsStyleData.setForeground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
xlsStyleData.setWrap(false);
xlsStyleData.setDataType(DataType.STRING);
// Protect cells
xlsStyleData.setLocked(true);
xlsFirstTable.easy_setRangeStyle("A2:E101", xlsStyleData);
// Set column widths
xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(0, 70);
xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(1, 100);
xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(2, 70);
xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(3, 100);
xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(4, 70);
// Add header on center section
ExcelWorksheet xlsFirstTab = (ExcelWorksheet)workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0);
xlsFirstTab.easy_getHeaderAt(Header.POSITION_CENTER).InsertSingleUnderline();
xlsFirstTab.easy_getHeaderAt(Header.POSITION_CENTER).InsertFile();
xlsFirstTab.easy_getHeaderAt(Header.POSITION_CENTER).InsertValue(" - How to create header and footer");
// Add header on right section
xlsFirstTab.easy_getHeaderAt(Header.POSITION_RIGHT).InsertDate();
xlsFirstTab.easy_getHeaderAt(Header.POSITION_RIGHT).InsertValue(" ");
xlsFirstTab.easy_getHeaderAt(Header.POSITION_RIGHT).InsertTime();
// Add footer on center section
xlsFirstTab.easy_getFooterAt(Footer.POSITION_CENTER).InsertPage();
xlsFirstTab.easy_getFooterAt(Footer.POSITION_CENTER).InsertValue(" of ");
xlsFirstTab.easy_getFooterAt(Footer.POSITION_CENTER).InsertPages();
// Export Excel file
System.out.println("Writing file: C:\\Samples\\Tutorial08 - header and footer in Excel.xlsx");
workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\\Samples\\Tutorial08 - header and footer in Excel.xlsx");
// Confirm export of Excel fileif (workbook.easy_getError().equals(""))
System.out.println("File successfully created.");
else
System.out.println("Error encountered: " + workbook.easy_getError());
// Dispose memory
workbook.Dispose();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
