If you're creating a written report on a company's monthly expenditures, you might need to include a spreadsheet to show the financial figures and make them easier to read. This article demonstrates how to convert Excel data into a Word table maintaining the formatting in C# and VB.NET using Spire.Office for .NET.
Install Spire.Office for .NET
To begin with, you need to add the DLL files included in the Spire.Office for .NET package as references in your .NET project. The DLL files can be either downloaded from this link or installed via NuGet.
PM> Install-Package Spire.Office
Export Excel Data to a Word Table with Formatting
Below are the steps to convert Excel data to a Word table and keep the formatting using Spire.Office for .NET.
- Create a Workbook object and load a sample Excel file using Workbook.LoadFromFile() method.
- Get a specific worksheet through Workbook.Worksheets[index] property.
- Create a Document object, and add a section to it.
- Add a table using Section.AddTable() method.
- Detect the merged cells in the worksheet and merge the corresponding cells of the Word tale using the custom method MergeCells().
- Get value of a specific Excel cell through CellRange.Value property and add it to a cell of the Word table using TableCell.AddParagraph().AppendText() method.
- Copy the font style and cell style from Excel to the Word table using the custom method CopyStyle().
- Save the document to a Word file using Document.SaveToFile() method.
- C#
- VB.NET
using Spire.Doc;
using Spire.Doc.Documents;
using Spire.Doc.Fields;
using Spire.Xls;
namespace ConvertExcelToWord
{
internal class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Load an Excel file
Workbook workbook = new Workbook();
workbook.LoadFromFile(@"C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\sample.xlsx");
//Get the first worksheet
Worksheet sheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];
//Create a Word document
Document doc = new Document();
Section section = doc.AddSection();
section.PageSetup.Orientation = PageOrientation.Landscape;
//Add a table
Table table = section.AddTable(true);
table.ResetCells(sheet.LastRow, sheet.LastColumn);
//Merge cells
MergeCells(sheet, table);
for (int r = 1; r <= sheet.LastRow; r++)
{
//Set row Height
table.Rows[r - 1].Height = (float)sheet.Rows[r - 1].RowHeight;
for (int c = 1; c <= sheet.LastColumn; c++)
{
CellRange xCell = sheet.Range[r, c];
TableCell wCell = table.Rows[r - 1].Cells[c - 1];
//Export data from Excel to Word table
TextRange textRange = wCell.AddParagraph().AppendText(xCell.NumberText);
//Copy font and cell style from Excel to Word
CopyStyle(textRange, xCell, wCell);
}
}
//Save the document to a Word file
doc.SaveToFile("ExportToWord.docx", Spire.Doc.FileFormat.Docx);
}
//Merge cells if any
private static void MergeCells(Worksheet sheet, Table table)
{
if (sheet.HasMergedCells)
{
//Get merged cell ranges from Excel
CellRange[] ranges = sheet.MergedCells;
//Merge corresponding cells in Word table
for (int i = 0; i < ranges.Length; i++)
{
int startRow = ranges[i].Row;
int startColumn = ranges[i].Column;
int rowCount = ranges[i].RowCount;
int columnCount = ranges[i].ColumnCount;
if (rowCount > 1 && columnCount > 1)
{
for (int j = startRow; j <= startRow + rowCount; j++)
{
table.ApplyHorizontalMerge(j - 1, startColumn - 1, startColumn - 1 + columnCount - 1);
}
table.ApplyVerticalMerge(startColumn - 1, startRow - 1, startRow - 1 + rowCount -1);
}
if (rowCount > 1 && columnCount == 1)
{
table.ApplyVerticalMerge(startColumn - 1, startRow - 1, startRow - 1 + rowCount -1);
}
if (columnCount > 1 && rowCount == 1)
{
table.ApplyHorizontalMerge(startRow - 1, startColumn - 1, startColumn - 1 + columnCount - 1);
}
}
}
}
//Copy cell style of Excel to Word table
private static void CopyStyle(TextRange wTextRange, CellRange xCell, TableCell wCell)
{
//Copy font style
wTextRange.CharacterFormat.TextColor = xCell.Style.Font.Color;
wTextRange.CharacterFormat.FontSize = (float)xCell.Style.Font.Size;
wTextRange.CharacterFormat.FontName = xCell.Style.Font.FontName;
wTextRange.CharacterFormat.Bold = xCell.Style.Font.IsBold;
wTextRange.CharacterFormat.Italic = xCell.Style.Font.IsItalic;
//Copy backcolor
wCell.CellFormat.BackColor = xCell.Style.Color;
//Copy horizontal alignment
switch (xCell.HorizontalAlignment)
{
case HorizontalAlignType.Left:
wTextRange.OwnerParagraph.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
break;
case HorizontalAlignType.Center:
wTextRange.OwnerParagraph.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
break;
case HorizontalAlignType.Right:
wTextRange.OwnerParagraph.Format.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right;
break;
}
//Copy vertical alignment
switch (xCell.VerticalAlignment)
{
case VerticalAlignType.Bottom:
wCell.CellFormat.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Bottom;
break;
case VerticalAlignType.Center:
wCell.CellFormat.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Middle;
break;
case VerticalAlignType.Top:
wCell.CellFormat.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Top;
break;
}
}
}
}
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