Access and Update the Portions of Rich Text of Cell

Aspose.Cells allows you to access and update the portions of the rich text of cell. For this purpose, you can use Cell.getCharacters() and Cell.setCharacters() methods. These methods will return and accept the array of FontSetting objects which you can use to access and update various properties of font like font name, font color, boldness etc.

Access and Update the Portions of Rich Text of Cell

The following code demonstrates the usage of Cell.getCharacters() and Cell.setCharacters() method using the source excel file which you can download from the provided link. The source excel file has a rich text in the cell A1. It has 3 portions and each portion has different font. We will access these portions and update the first portion with new font name. Finally it saves the workbook as output excel file. When you will open it, you will find the font of the first portion of the text has changed to “Arial”.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-cells/Aspose.Cells-for-Java
// The path to the documents directory.
String dataDir = Utils.getDataDir(AccessAndUpdatePortions.class);

Workbook workbook = new Workbook(dataDir + "source.xlsx");

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

Cell cell = worksheet.getCells().get("A1");

System.out.println("Before updating the font settings....");

FontSetting[] fnts = cell.getCharacters();

for (int i = 0; i < fnts.length; i++) {
	System.out.println(fnts[i].getFont().getName());
}

// Modify the first FontSetting Font Name
fnts[0].getFont().setName("Arial");

// And update it using SetCharacters() method
cell.setCharacters(fnts);

System.out.println();

System.out.println("After updating the font settings....");

fnts = cell.getCharacters();

for (int i = 0; i < fnts.length; i++) {
	System.out.println(fnts[i].getFont().getName());
}

// Save workbook
workbook.save(dataDir + "output.xlsx");

Console Output

Here is the console output of the above sample code using the source excel file.

 Before updating the font settings....

Century

Courier New

Verdana

After updating the font settings....

Arial

Courier New

Verdana