BE THE CODER > Excel > Java Excel API Examples > How to enable Spreadsheet selection in Excel Workbook

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 select a particular Spread sheet in Excel Workbook.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jexcelapi/write/SheetSelectionTest.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.WritableSheet;

import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;

import jxl.write.WriteException;



public class SheetSelectionTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws WriteException 

   * @throws BiffException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, WriteException {

    //Creates a writable workbook with the given file name

    WritableWorkbook workbook = Workbook.createWorkbook(new File("C:/JXL/SelectSheet.xls"));

    

    //Create sheets with given name

    for (int i = 0 ; i < 6 ; i ++) {

      workbook.createSheet("My Sheet-" + (i+1), i);

    }

    

    //Select the specified sheet

    WritableSheet sheet = workbook.getSheet("My Sheet-4");

    sheet.getSettings().setSelected(true);

    

    //Writes out the data held in this workbook in Excel format

    workbook.write(); 

    

    //Close and free allocated memory 

    workbook.close(); 

  }



}