Hide and Unhide Cells

Aspose.Cells - Hide and Unhide Rows and Columns

Aspose.Cells provides a class, Workbook, that represents a Microsoft Excel file. The Workbook class contains a WorksheetCollection that allows access to each worksheet in the Excel file. A worksheet is represented by the Worksheet class. The Worksheet class provides a Cells collection that represents all cells in the worksheet. The Cells collection provides several methods for managing rows or columns in a worksheet. 

Java

 Workbook workbook = new Workbook("workbook.xls");

//Accessing the first worksheet in the Excel file

Worksheet worksheet = workbook.getWorksheets().get(0);

Cells cells = worksheet.getCells();

cells.hideRow(2); //Hiding the 3rd row of the worksheet

cells.hideColumn(1); //Hiding the 2nd column of the worksheet

Apache POI SS - HSSF XSSF - Hide / Unhide Cells

To Hide a row or column, Apache POI SS provide Row.setZeroHeight(boolean) method.

Java

 InputStream inStream = new FileInputStream("workbook.xls");

Workbook workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(inStream);

Sheet sheet = workbook.createSheet();

Row row = sheet.createRow(0);

row.setZeroHeight(true);

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