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 formats Excel file
Execute the following Java code that formats Excel cells, rows, columns and cell ranges.
package testexceljava;
import java.awt.Color;
import EasyXLS.*;
import EasyXLS.Constants.*;
/* ---------------------------------------------------------------
| Tutorial 05
|
| This code sample shows how to export data to Excel file in Java
| and format the cells. The Excel file has multiple worksheets.
| The first sheet is filled with data and the cells are formatted.
* ------------------------------------------------------------- */public class Tutorial05 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
System.out.println("Tutorial 05");
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");
// 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);
}
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);
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);
// Export the Excel file
System.out.println("Writing file: C:\\Samples\\Tutorial05 - format Excel cells.xlsx");
workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\\Samples\\Tutorial05 - format Excel cells.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();
}
}
}
