BE THE CODER > Excel > Java Excel API Examples > How to set Excel Column Width

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 set Column Width in Excel Spread sheet.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jexcelapi/write/CellWidthTest.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.Border;

import jxl.format.BorderLineStyle;

import jxl.format.Colour;

import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;

import jxl.write.Label;

import jxl.write.WritableCellFormat;

import jxl.write.WritableFont;

import jxl.write.WritableSheet;

import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;

import jxl.write.WriteException;



public class CellWidthTest {



  /**

   * @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/CellWidth.xls"));

    WritableSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("My Sheet", 0);

    

    // Create cell font and format

    WritableFont cellFont = new WritableFont(WritableFont.TIMES, 12);

    cellFont.setColour(Colour.BLUE);

    

    WritableCellFormat cellFormat = new WritableCellFormat(cellFont);

    cellFormat.setBackground(Colour.ORANGE);

    cellFormat.setBorder(Border.ALL, BorderLineStyle.THIN);

    

    //Set cell width in CHARS

    int col = 2;

    int widthInChars = 3;

    sheet.setColumnView(col, widthInChars);

    sheet.addCell(new Label(col, 1, "A", cellFormat));    

    

    col = 3;

    widthInChars = 4;

    sheet.setColumnView(col, widthInChars);

    sheet.addCell(new Label(col, 1, "BB", cellFormat));  

    

    col = 4;

    widthInChars = 16;

    sheet.setColumnView(col, widthInChars);

    sheet.addCell(new Label(col, 1, "CCCCC", cellFormat));  

    

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

    workbook.write(); 

    

    //Close and free allocated memory 

    workbook.close(); 

  }



}