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How to copy and update 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 copy and update Cells in Excel Spread sheet.

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/jexcelapi/write/CellCopyTest2.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.Colour;
import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;
import jxl.write.Label;
import jxl.write.WritableCell;
import jxl.write.WritableCellFormat;
import jxl.write.WritableFont;
import jxl.write.WritableSheet;
import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;
import jxl.write.WriteException;

public class CellCopyTest2 {

  /**
   @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/CopyCell2.xls"));
    
    WritableSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("My Sheet"0);
    
    // Create cell font and format
    WritableFont cellFont = new WritableFont(WritableFont.TIMES, 16);
    cellFont.setColour(Colour.BLUE);
    
    WritableCellFormat cellFormat = new WritableCellFormat(cellFont);
    cellFormat.setBackground(Colour.ORANGE);

    // Create the label, specifying content and format
    Label label = new Label(12"ABCD", cellFormat);
    sheet.addCell(label);
    
    //Create copies of cell in a loop
    WritableCell copiedCell = null;
    WritableCellFormat cpCellFormat = new WritableCellFormat(cellFont);
    cpCellFormat.setBackground(Colour.PINK);
    
    for (int i = ; i < ; i ++) {
      //Deep copy cell
      copiedCell = sheet.getWritableCell(12).copyTo(1+ i);
      copiedCell.setCellFormat(cpCellFormat);
      sheet.addCell(copiedCell);
    }
    
    //Writes out the data held in this workbook in Excel format
    workbook.write()
    
    //Close and free allocated memory 
    workbook.close()
  }

}
   

It gives the following output,
cell-copy2.gif


 
  


  
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