Format Worksheet Cells in a Workbook

Data Formatting

Formatting is used to distinguish between different types of information and to display data clearly.

A format represents a style and is defined as a set of characteristics, such as fonts and font sizes, number formats, cell borders, cell shading, indentation, alignment and text orientation. Borders provide further ways to highlight information. A border is a line drawn around a cell or a group of cells.

Number formats also make data more meaningful. By applying different number formats, you can change the appearance of numbers without changing the number behind the appearance.

Aspose.Cells lets you to draw cell & range borders quickly & easily. It also lets you apply fonts and shade cells. The component is efficient enough that you can format a complete row or column, set alignments, wrap and rotate text in cells. Aspose.Cells further supports all number formats supported by Microsoft Excel.

This article shows how to generate an annual sales report. The workbook is created from scratch, then data is inserted and the worksheet is formatted. We show how to create a simple console application which creates an Excel workbook (you can also use a template file), insert sales data into the first worksheet, format the data and save an Excel file.

Process

Result

After executing the above code, a Microsoft Excel file is generated with a new, formatted worksheet called Sales Report.

The output file

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Summary