Reusing Style Objects

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To apply some formatting to a large range of cells in a worksheet:

  1. Create a style object.
  2. Specify the attributes.
  3. Apply the style to the cells in the range.
// 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(ReuseStyleObjects.class);
// Create an instance of Workbook & load an existing spreadsheet
Workbook workbook = new Workbook(dataDir + "Book1.xls");
// Retrieve the Cell Collection of the first Worksheet
Cells cells = workbook.getWorksheets().get(0).getCells();
// Create an instance of Style and add it to the pool of styles
Style styleObject = workbook.createStyle();
// Retrieve the Font object of newly created style
Font font = styleObject.getFont();
// Set the font color to Red
font.setColor(Color.getRed());
// Set the newly created style on two different cells
cells.get("A1").setStyle(styleObject);
cells.get("A2").setStyle(styleObject);

The same process as discussed above could also be accomplished as follow.

cells.get("A1").getStyle().getFont().setColor(Color.getRed());
cells.get("A2").getStyle().getFont().setColor(Color.getRed());