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Sometimes we need to hide some rows and columns in Excel worksheets so that the data appears completely on one screen. At other times, we need to show all the hidden rows and columns to view the data completely. In this article, you will learn how to hide and show rows or columns in Excel in Java applications from the following four parts.
- Hide Excel Rows and Columns
- Show Hidden Rows and Columns in Excel
- Hide Multiple Rows and Columns
- Show All Hidden Rows and Columns
Install Spire.XLS for Java
First of all, you're required to add the Spire.Xls.jar file as a dependency in your Java program. The JAR file can be downloaded from this link. If you use Maven, you can easily import the JAR file in your application by adding the following code to your project's pom.xml file.
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.e-iceblue</id>
<name>e-iceblue</name>
<url>https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
<artifactId>spire.xls</artifactId>
<version>16.6.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Hide Rows and Columns
The detailed steps are listed as below.
- Create a Workbook instance and load a sample Excel document using Workbook.loadFromFile() method.
- Get a specified worksheet using Workbook.getWorksheets().get() method.
- Hide a specific column using Worksheet.hideColumn(int columnIndex)method.
- Hide a specific row using Worksheet.hideRow(int rowIndex) method.
- Save the document to file using Workbook.saveToFile() method.
- Java
import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
import com.spire.xls.Worksheet;
public class HideRowsColumns {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
//Load the sample document
Workbook wb = new Workbook();
wb.loadFromFile("Sample.xlsx ");
//Get the first worksheet
Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);
//Hide the third column
sheet.hideColumn(3);
//Hide the third row
sheet.hideRow(3);
//Save the document
wb.saveToFile("HideRowsColumns.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2016);
}
}
Show Hidden Rows and Columns
- Create a Workbook instance and load a sample Excel document using Workbook.loadFromFile() method.
- Get a specified worksheet using Workbook.getWorksheets().get() method.
- Show a hidden column using Worksheet.showColumn(int columnIndex)method.
- Show a hidden row using Worksheet.showRow(int rowIndex) method.
- Save the document to file using Workbook.saveToFile() method.
- Java
import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
import com.spire.xls.Worksheet;
public class ShowRowsColumns {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
//Load the sample document
Workbook wb = new Workbook();
wb.loadFromFile("HideRowsColumns.xlsx ");
//Get the first worksheet
Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);
//Unhide the third column
sheet.showColumn(3);
//Unhide the third row
sheet.showRow(3);
//Save the document
wb.saveToFile("ShowRowsColumns.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2016);
}
}
Hide Multiple Rows and Columns
- Create a Workbook instance and load a sample Excel document using Workbook.loadFromFile() method.
- Get a specified worksheet using Workbook.getWorksheets().get() method.
- Hide multiple columns using Worksheet.hideColumns(int columnIndex, int columnCount)method.
- Hide multiple rows using worksheet.hideRows(int rowIndex, int rowCount) method.
- Save the document to file using Workbook.saveToFile() method.
- Java
import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
import com.spire.xls.Worksheet;
public class HideMultiRowsColumns {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
//Load the sample document
Workbook wb = new Workbook();
wb.loadFromFile("Sample01.xlsx ");
//Get the first worksheet
Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);
//Hide multiple columns
sheet.hideColumns(2,2);
//Hide multiple rows
sheet.hideRows(3,3);
//Save the document
wb.saveToFile("HideMultiRowsColumns.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2016);
}
}
Show Multiple Rows and Columns
- Create a Workbook instance and load a sample Excel document using Workbook.loadFromFile() method.
- Get a specified worksheet using Workbook.getWorksheets().get() method.
- Loop through the rows and find the hidden rows using Worksheet.getRowIsHide() method.
- Show all hidden rows using Worksheet.showRow(i) method.
- Save the document to file using Workbook.saveToFile() method.
- Java
import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
import com.spire.xls.Worksheet;
public class ShowMultiRowsColumns {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
//Load the sample document
Workbook wb = new Workbook();
wb.loadFromFile("HideMultiRowsColumns.xlsx");
//Get the first worksheet
Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);
//Traverse all the rows
for (int i = 1; i <= sheet.getLastRow(); i++) {
//detect if the row is hidden
if (sheet.getRowIsHide(i)) {
//Show the hidden rows
sheet.showRow(i);
}
}
//Traverse the columns and show all the hidden columns
for (int j = 1; j <= sheet.getLastColumn(); j++) {
if (sheet.getColumnIsHide(j)) {
sheet.showColumn(j);
}
//Save the document
wb.saveToFile("ShowMultiRowsColumns.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2016);
}
}
}
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Tables are commonly seen in PDF invoices and financial reports. You may encounter the situation where you need to export PDF table data into Excel, so that you can analyze the data using the tools provided by MS Excel. This article explains how to extract tables from a PDF page and export them as individual Excel worksheets using Spire.Office for Java.
Install Spire.Office for Java
The scenario actually uses Spire.PDF for Java for extracting tables from PDF, and Spire.XLS for Java for generating Excel files. In order to use them in the same project, you’ll need to add the Spire.Office.jar file as a dependency in your Java program.
The JAR file can be downloaded from this link. If you use Maven, you can easily import the JAR file in your application by adding the following code to your project’s pom.xml file.
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.e-iceblue</id>
<name>e-iceblue</name>
<url>https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
<artifactId>spire.office</artifactId>
<version>11.5.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Export Table Data from PDF to Excel
The following are the main steps to extract all tables from a certain page and save each of them as an individual worksheet in an Excel document.
- Load a sample PDF document while initializing the PdfDocument object.
- Create a PdfTableExtractor object, and call extactTable(int pageIndex) method under it to extract all tables in the first page.
- Create a Workbook instance.
- Loop through the tables in the PdfTable[] array, and get the specific one by its index.
- Add a worksheet to the workbook using Workbook.getWorksheets.add() method.
- Loop through the cells in the PDF table, and get the value of a specific cell using PdfTable.getText(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) method. Then insert the value to the worksheet using Worksheet.get(int row, int column).setText(String string) method.
- Save the workbook to an Excel document using Workbook.saveToFile() method.
- Java
import com.spire.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.spire.pdf.utilities.PdfTable;
import com.spire.pdf.utilities.PdfTableExtractor;
import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
import com.spire.xls.Worksheet;
public class ExtractTableDataAndSaveInExcel {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//Load a sample PDF document
PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Tables.pdf");
//Create a PdfTableExtractor instance
PdfTableExtractor extractor = new PdfTableExtractor(pdf);
//Extract tables from the first page
PdfTable[] pdfTables = extractor.extractTable(0);
//Create a Workbook object,
Workbook wb = new Workbook();
//Remove default worksheets
wb.getWorksheets().clear();
//If any tables are found
if (pdfTables != null && pdfTables.length > 0) {
//Loop through the tables
for (int tableNum = 0; tableNum < pdfTables.length; tableNum++) {
//Add a worksheet to workbook
String sheetName = String.format("Table - %d", tableNum + 1);
Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().add(sheetName);
//Loop through the rows in the current table
for (int rowNum = 0; rowNum < pdfTables[tableNum].getRowCount(); rowNum++) {
//Loop through the columns in the current table
for (int colNum = 0; colNum < pdfTables[tableNum].getColumnCount(); colNum++) {
//Extract data from the current table cell
String text = pdfTables[tableNum].getText(rowNum, colNum);
//Insert data into a specific cell
sheet.get(rowNum + 1, colNum + 1).setText(text);
}
}
//Auto fit column width
for (int sheetColNum = 0; sheetColNum < sheet.getColumns().length; sheetColNum++) {
sheet.autoFitColumn(sheetColNum + 1);
}
}
}
//Save the workbook to an Excel file
wb.saveToFile("output/ExportTableToExcel.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2016);
}
}
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If you'd like to remove the evaluation message from the generated documents, or to get rid of the function limitations, please request a 30-day trial license for yourself.
Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based format for Excel, Word and Presentation documents. Sometimes, you may need to convert an Excel file to Office Open XML in order to make it readable on various applications and platforms. Likewise, you might also want to convert Office Open XML to Excel for data calculations. In this article, you will learn how to Convert Excel to Office Open XML and vice versa in Java using Spire.XLS for Java library.
Install Spire.XLS for Java
First of all, you're required to add the Spire.Xls.jar file as a dependency in your Java program. The JAR file can be downloaded from this link. If you use Maven, you can easily import the JAR file in your application by adding the following code to your project's pom.xml file.
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.e-iceblue</id>
<name>e-iceblue</name>
<url>https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
<artifactId>spire.xls</artifactId>
<version>16.6.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Convert Excel to Office Open XML in Java
The following are the steps to convert an Excel file to Office Open XML:
- Create an instance of Workbook class.
- Load an Excel file using Workbook.loadFromFile() method.
- Call Workbook.saveAsXml() method to save the Excel file as Office Open XML.
- Java
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
public class ExcelToOpenXML {
public static void main(String []args){
//Create a Workbook instance
Workbook workbook = new Workbook();
//Load an Excel file
workbook.loadFromFile("Sample.xlsx");
//Save as Office Open XML file format
workbook.saveAsXml("ToXML.xml");
}
}
Convert Office Open XML to Excel in Java
The following are the steps to convert an Office Open XML file to Excel:
- Create an instance of Workbook class.
- Load an Office Open XML file using Workbook.loadFromXml() file.
- Call Workbook.saveToFile() method to save the Office Open XML file as Excel.
- Java
import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
public class OpenXmlToExcel {
public static void main(String []args){
//Create an instance of Workbook class
Workbook workbook = new Workbook();
//Load an Office Open XML file
workbook.loadFromXml("ToXML.xml");
//Save as Excel XLSX file format
workbook.saveToFile("ToExcel.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2016);
}
}
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If you'd like to remove the evaluation message from the generated documents, or to get rid of the function limitations, please request a 30-day trial license for yourself.
