• Performing Common Excel Spreadsheet Operations
• Generate Excel Spreadsheets Programmatically
• "Hello, World" Spreadsheet
• Office Example: Simple Weekly sales spreadsheet
• Office Example: Spreadsheet from DBF tables
• Office Example: Spreadsheet from SQL query
• Office Example: Spreadsheet with picture
• Office Example: Multiple spreadsheets
• Office Example: Update a spreadsheet
• Example: Spreadsheets from SQL schema

Generate Excel Spreadsheets Programmatically

Description

The Office class can read and write Excel files. It doesn't require Microsoft Excel. Use it to

• Generate a new spreadsheet from scratch

• Generate a new spreadsheet from your databases

• Edit an existing spreadsheet

• Merge an existing spreadsheet with new data

The overall sequence used to generate an Excel spreadsheet is

• Create a new document object

• For an Excel 2007 spreadsheet

  dim Doc as Office::ExcelDocument

• for an Excel 2003 spreadsheet

  dim Doc as Office::Excel2003Document

• Add one or more sheets to the document

  dim Sheet as Office::Spreadsheet
   Sheet=Doc.AddSheet("My sheet name")

• Create your fonts and formats

  dim Format as Office::Format
   dim Font as Office::Font
   Format = Doc.AddFormat()
   Font = Doc.AddFont()
   Font.Color = Office::Color::DarkBlue
   Font.Name = "Tahoma"
   Font.Size = 14
   Font.Bold = .t.
   Format.Font = Font
   Format.HorizontalAlignment = Office::HorizontalAlignment::Center

• Add cells to the sheets

  Sheet.Write(1,1,"Hello, World",Format)
   Sheet.Write(2,1,3.14159,Format)

• Save the document, Use .xls for Excel 2003

  Doc.Save("MySheet.xlsx")

• Release references to the in-memory document

  delete Doc

See Also

• Office
• Office::ExcelDocument
• Office::Excel2003Document
• Office::SpreadSheet
• Office::Format
• Office::Font
• Office Example: Hello, World Spreadsheet
• Office Enumerations
• How to perform common spreadsheet operations
• Office Example: Simple Weekly sales spreadsheet
• Office Example: Multiple spreadsheets
• Office Example: Spreadsheet from SQL query
• Office Example: Spreadsheet from DBF tables
• Office Example: Spreadsheet with picture
• Office Example: Update a spreadsheet
• SQL Example: Spreadsheets from SQL schema