I am trying to set the exported file format as Text.
Currently even if It set the cell values to string it shows as general in the exported file.
I tried to set
style index 0 still didn't help.
I want to set the cells as text instead of general.
Code used from here : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/how-to-create-a-spreadsheet-document-by-providing-a-file-name
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I am generating a block of text via C# Stringbuilder, with appropriately tab-delimited text (new lines, "\t", etc.) and displaying the text within a tag in my web application. If I copy/paste this to Excel, all the text pastes into the first column on the spreadsheet.
If I copy the outerHTML of the block (Chrome) or copy/paste into Notepad++ and THEN paste to Excel, all the data pastes neatly into individual cells - which is the desired outcome of this effort. Can anyone tell me what I need to do in order to be able to copy the text from my application and paste it into Excel, so that the text pastes into individual cells (ie, keeps the tab-delimited format)?
Unfortunately, it appears an extra step is required.
The default behaviour of paste in Excel (& many other applications) is to use the original format of the contents of the clipboard.
Copying from a web application/HTML page will result in the clipboard contents being flagged as HTML. The clipboard contents will have the tab character, but as HTML renders tabs to whitespace (compacting to a single whitespace if there are multiple tabs) - just using control-V will convert the tabs to spaces & the contents will appear in a single cell when pasting into Excel..
You will need to use the "Paste Special" option & select "Unicode text" to retain the tabs. There is no way to set this by default : https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_windows8-mso_365hp/how-to-change-default-paste-behavior-with-ctrl-v/f58da075-8fd5-4c80-a64b-5e71ec8ad38b?auth=1
Copying the outerHTML of Chrome sets the clipboard format to text in the first place, pasting to Notepad++ does paste as text rather than HTML then recopying sets the format to text - which is why these methods work.
I was able to paste to Excel and keep the format by changing the element my text wrote to from a div to textarea. Copy/paste of tsv from textarea to a tab-delimited Excel spreadsheet keeps the data formatted in tabular format when pasted. Thanks all for the help.
Try this ,
Before pasting data set excel's text to column delimiters to space and try to paste your values again.
Old topic but I had this. Need to copy something each day from a programme which outputs to google chrome browser. Whenever it was copied and pasted into excel it was going into 1 cell. Yet if I control all and paste it was ok.
I found you can copy only the lines you want and it will behave as wanted - if you don't drag the cursor all the way down off the page. ie if you highlight down to the last piece of information in the bottom right of screen more carefully, when you past to excel it pastes it as tab separated. Whereas if you drag it right down it pastes it all in 1 cell. Might help someone in the future who has this.
You can use 'text to columns' in Excel to format the data in the way you want it to.
After pasting the data into excel, select the column with your data.
Go to Data - click 'Text to columns'
Choose delimited and hit next
Choose Tab and hit finish.
If you don't want to use this extra step, the following works for Excel 2013:
Go to Home, Paste options and click 'Use text import wizard'
Choose delimited and hit next
Choose Tab and hit finish.
I am using LinqToCsv to export data from a database to a csv file. One of the columns is a DateTime object. Upon export, the DateTime column shows up as "#######" until I manually expand the column width to fit the entire DateTime output. Is there a way to manually set column widths so that I don't have to manually expand the row every time?
A csv file has no concept of column widths. You could possibly export an .xlsx file instead using a library such as EPPlus
CSV has no format attached. It is a plain text file comma/semicolon separated. You see the file that way because Excel is showing "empty" style for it. If you open the file with a notepad you´ll see the data correctly.
If you need any style you´ll have to migrate to a XLSX or XLS file.
I'm currently exporting to Excel a RadGrid and I have some cells that have the text "1 / 10" meaning that they had 1 hour used for 10 units. When this gets to Excel, it thinks the cell is a date, so it changes the cell to be January-10 which is not what I'm wanting.
I've gone the other direction before (changing a string to a number/date) but I've never had the issue where I needed to make Excel keep the cell as a string and not try to change the format.
How do I do this? I've tried adding a apostrophe to the beginning of the cell text:
e.Cell.Text = String.Format("'{0}", e.Cell.Text);
but that seems to just make Excel display two apostrophe's at the start of the cell:
Update:
I'm using Telerik RadGrid (v2012.2.929.40) and all it does is generate some HTML for Excel to open (you always get that horrible prompt from Excel when trying to open it). So before, if I wanted something to be formatted as a number like I had specific in the grid, I could have the following event that would set the mso-number-format. But, this doesn't quite work when I want Excel to display the cell value as strictly text.
protected void RadGridQuote_ExcelExportCellFormatting(object sender, ExcelExportCellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Cell.Style["mso-number-format"] != null)
{
e.Cell.Style["mso-number-format"] = "/#";
e.Cell.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Left;
}
}
If you're using Excel Automation in C#, I've found the best results would be to set the NumberFormat first, which you should set to "#". Then set the value in your .Text property. (If you do it in reverse, it'll convert the date into a number, which you don't want.)
See also MSDN regarding NumberFormat.
I created csv file in format "Surname;Birthday;Name". Where Birthday is in format ddmmyyyy (e.g. 01121989 or 09111983).
When I opened it in Excel It did not show first '0'.
Can I escape this symbol to show full date in Excel?
When I saved this file from Excel using option "Save as" It lost first '0' in Birthday. Is it possible to prevent this?
Thank you.
In stead of opening the csv as you normally would use a data connection.
For this go to your ribbon item Data > From Text
Browse to your CSV and select Open. Now you will get a text-to-columns window where you can set the specific column properties to Text (so not General or Number). This way the complete set of characters are available.
Once you open the file, right-click the column letter (e.g., B) and select Format Cells. Then choose Custom, and set the format to 00000000. This will add the leading 0 to all cells where it is missing, and when you save it as .csv, it will export the leading 0 in the output file too.
This is typical Excel. You can consider using single quotes:
A,'01121989',B
If you are using a program to read this file you can clear these single quotes easily.
Format your date cells as Text.
Right-click, Format Cells, under Category select Text.
Normally, when you enter some number in Excel, you will see it aligns right, if you enter the same numbers in a Text formatted cell, it will align left, and any zeroes at the starts will be kept.
Can you please help me to figure out how I can insert DataGridView values into a pre defined excel template (Into Specific Cells)?
I have a DataGridView on my windows Form which is getting the values from user input. Now I would like to enable users to export the DataGridView values into an excel file (A File like attached excel file).
As far as I know I have to create the headers and add them to the code programmatically but for the DataGridView part, honestly I have no idea how I can do that?
As you can see the Form (Box) is starting from B2 to K2 and end from B21 to K21 Now my question is how i can start importing values from B4 - k4 and so on?
Is there any way I can format the style of the cell (like Background color or font style and size) from C#? I mean generating a form like what is looking in attached Excel programmatically.
Thanks for your time in advance
Not sure if this is what you're looking for but ff you are using Office Interop, you can insert a 2-dimensional array into a range in Excel.
The following snippet might not be correct (no VS nearby and I haven't used excel automation for a long time) but you'll get the picture.
Excel.Range oRange = oSheet.Range("B2",Missing.Value);
oRange.Resize(myArray.GetLength(0),myArray.GetLength(1));
oRange.Value = myArray;