Formatting of data exported to excel file - c#

I have exported data from a text file to an excel sheet,
with the help of clipboard copy and paste.
I used PIA for this.
The exporting is done properly and the data is exported to a single column i.e in the A Column.
I want to fill my data in the rows of this column ,so that they are filled properly in the cell and I dont have to expand the A column to view complete data.
And also how can i change the font of the sheet while exporting

How is this text file created? If you have full control over its contents, I suggest using a csv ( comma-seperated-value ) file instead. You won't have control over the default font excel uses but it would fulfill your requirement of having the data populate multiple columns.
Outside of using csv file to handle this data, I suggest you look into exporting it into an excel document directly, you would have full control over look and the font used for the contents.

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Is there any way to programaticallly save Excel cell to local files that could be load just like "copy and paste" with VSTO?

I've been working with Excel VSTO Add-in these days, and what I need is to load some templates from the database, and fill them in the Excel cells.
The thing is I can only store the data in plain text, the style and format would be missing if I try to copy and paste a target cell and store it somewhere in the notepads (or other editors).
Is there any way to save the cell data with styles to some binary local file (or others), and when I need it sometime, I could load and fill it to a targeted cell, like I have just copied it from some cells else.
Thanks!
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I've attached an example here:
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