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How to Add Hyperlink to Excel Spreadsheet2 

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 add Hyperlink to Excel Spread sheet.

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/jexcelapi/write/HyperlinkTest2.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.read.biff.BiffException;
import jxl.write.WritableHyperlink;
import jxl.write.WritableSheet;
import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;
import jxl.write.WriteException;

public class HyperlinkTest2 {

  /**
   @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/Hyperlink2.xls"));

    WritableSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("My Sheet"0);
    
      //Add hyper link
    File file = new File("C:/abcd.txt");
      
      //Activate cell A2
      WritableHyperlink wh = new WritableHyperlink(0101, file, "Test description for link1");
      sheet.addHyperlink(wh);
    
      //Activate cells A4, B4
      WritableHyperlink wh2 = new WritableHyperlink(0313, file, "Test description for link2");
      sheet.addHyperlink(wh2);
      
      //Activate cells A6, B6, C6
      WritableHyperlink wh3 = new WritableHyperlink(0525, file, "Test description for link3");
      sheet.addHyperlink(wh3);
      
    //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,
hyperlink2.gif


 
  


  
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