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How to Align Text Vertically in Excel Cells 

Java Excel API is an open source java library to read, write and modify Excel spread sheets. This requires the library jxl-2.6.12.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows how to align text Vertically in Excel Spread sheet.

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/jexcelapi/write/CellVAlignmentTest.java 
Author  :  Sudhakar KV
Email  :  [email protected]
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jexcelapi.write;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import jxl.Workbook;
import jxl.format.VerticalAlignment;
import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;
import jxl.write.Label;
import jxl.write.WritableCellFormat;
import jxl.write.WritableSheet;
import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;
import jxl.write.WriteException;

public class CellVAlignmentTest {

  /**
   @param args
   @throws IOException 
   @throws IOException 
   @throws WriteException 
   @throws BiffException 
   */
  public static void main(String[] argsthrows IOException, WriteException {
    //Creates a writable workbook with the given file name
    WritableWorkbook workbook = Workbook.createWorkbook(new File("C:/JXL/CellVAlignment.xls"));
    
    //Create sheet and add a label
    WritableSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("My Sheet"0);
    
    //Set sheet defaults
    //width in chars
    //height of the row in 1/20ths of a point
      sheet.getSettings().setDefaultColumnWidth(20);
      sheet.getSettings().setDefaultRowHeight(28 20);
    
    addCell(sheet, 11, VerticalAlignment.TOP);
    addCell(sheet, 12, VerticalAlignment.CENTRE);
    addCell(sheet, 13, VerticalAlignment.BOTTOM);
    
    //Writes out the data held in this workbook in Excel format
    workbook.write()
    
    //Close and free allocated memory 
    workbook.close()
  }

  private static void addCell(WritableSheet sheet, 
      int col, int row, VerticalAlignment alignmentthrows WriteException {
    
    WritableCellFormat cellFormat = new WritableCellFormat();
      cellFormat.setVerticalAlignment(alignment);
    
    sheet.addCell(new Label(col, row, "abc", cellFormat));    
  }
}
   

It gives the following output,
valign.gif


 
  


  
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