Find if the Worksheet is Dialog Sheet

Possible Usage Scenarios

Dialog Sheet is an old format of the sheet that contains a dialog box. Such a sheet could be inserted by an older version of Microsoft Excel e.g. 2003 as shown in this screenshot. It can also be inserted with VBA in newer versions e.g. Microsoft Excel 2016.

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You can find if the sheet is a dialog sheet or some other type of sheet with Worksheet.Type property provided by Aspose.Cells. If it returns enumeration value SheetType.DIALOG, then it means, you are dealing with a dialog sheet.

Find if the Worksheet is Dialog Sheet

The following sample code loads the sample Excel file that contains a dialog sheet. It checks the Worksheet.Type property compares it with SheetType.DIALOG and then prints the message. Please see the console output of the sample code given below for more help.

Sample Code

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-cells/Aspose.Cells-for-Java
//Load Excel file containing Dialog Sheet
Workbook wb = new Workbook(srcDir + "sampleFindIfWorksheetIsDialogSheet.xlsx");
//Access first worksheet
Worksheet ws = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);
//Find if the sheet type is dialog and print the message
if(ws.getType() == SheetType.DIALOG)
{
System.out.println("Worksheet is a Dialog Sheet.");
}

Console Output

Worksheet is a Dialog Sheet.