You can use a library called ExcelLibrary. It's a free, open source library posted on Google Code:
ExcelLibrary
This looks to be a port of the PHP ExcelWriter that you mentioned above. It will not write to the new .xlsx format yet, but they are working on adding that functionality in.
It's very simple, small and easy to use. Plus it has a DataSetHelper that lets you use DataSets and DataTables to easily work with Excel data.
ExcelLibrary seems to still only work for the older Excel format (.xls files), but may be adding support in the future for newer 2007/2010 formats.
You can also use EPPlus, which works only for Excel 2007/2010 format files (.xlsx files). There's also NPOI which works with both.
There are a few known bugs with each library as noted in the comments. In all, EPPlus seems to be the best choice as time goes on. It seems to be more actively updated and documented as well.
Also, as noted by @АртёмЦарионов below, EPPlus has support for Pivot Tables and ExcelLibrary may have some support (Pivot table issue in ExcelLibrary)
Here are a couple links for quick reference:
ExcelLibrary - GNU Lesser GPL
EPPlus - GNU (LGPL) - No longer maintained
EPPlus 5 - Polyform Noncommercial - Starting May 2020
NPOI - Apache License
Here some example code for ExcelLibrary:
Here is an example taking data from a database and creating a workbook from it. Note that the ExcelLibrary code is the single line at the bottom:
//Create the data set and table
DataSet ds = new DataSet("New_DataSet");
DataTable dt = new DataTable("New_DataTable");
//Set the locale for each
ds.Locale = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
dt.Locale = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
//Open a DB connection (in this example with OleDB)
OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(dbConnectionString);
con.Open();
//Create a query and fill the data table with the data from the DB
string sql = "SELECT Whatever FROM MyDBTable;";
OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(sql, con);
OleDbDataAdapter adptr = new OleDbDataAdapter();
adptr.SelectCommand = cmd;
adptr.Fill(dt);
con.Close();
//Add the table to the data set
ds.Tables.Add(dt);
//Here's the easy part. Create the Excel worksheet from the data set
ExcelLibrary.DataSetHelper.CreateWorkbook("MyExcelFile.xls", ds);
Creating the Excel file is as easy as that. You can also manually create Excel files, but the above functionality is what really impressed me.
If you are changing the font size, but it is only working for the currently open file, then I suspect that you are changing the wrong preferences.
- On the Eclipse toolbar, select Window → Preferences
- Set the font size, General → Appearance → Colors and Fonts → Java → Java Editor Text Font).
- Save the preferences.
Check that you do not have per-project preferences. These will override the top-level preferences.
Eclipse v4.2 (Juno) note
Per comment below, this has moved to the Eclipse Preferences menu (no longer named the Window menu).
Eclipse v4.3 (Kepler) note
The Window menu is live again, that is, menu Window → Preferences.
Note Be sure to check out the ChandraBhan Singh's answer, it shows the key bindings to change the font size.
Best Answer
Like Edward already said you need to create a Stylesheet object.
The Stylesheet object have to contain all Fonts, Fills, CellFormats, etc. that you want use.
Assign the Stylesheet to your workbookpart object
After that you are able to assign a CellStyleId to a Cell.
assigning fonts, fills, borders, etc. to objects like CellFormats
Each
Font
,Fill
,Border
, ... can be assigned to other objects by their index in the corresponding collection. For example the first added font to the fonts object will have the index1U
.These indices are represented as unsigned integers (no negative values more positive values). The 'U' suffix denotes either a uint or a ulong.
links
OpenXml docs, unsigned integers