Java: Copy Cell Range in Excel

Copying cell ranges is a fundamental and highly beneficial function in spreadsheet management, which empowers users to effortlessly duplicate a range of cells, including data, formatting, and formulas, to a specified position. With it, users can efficiently copy identical content throughout their spreadsheets, while mitigating the potential for input errors. Importantly, the relative relationships between cells are preserved when copying cell ranges, ensuring the consistency of the copied data with the original. As a result, this feature holds immense value for tasks such as file backups and template creation, making it an indispensable tool in spreadsheet. This article will demonstrate how to copy a cell range within a worksheet or between two worksheets in a single Excel file by using Spire.XLS for Java.

• Copy a Specific Cell Range within a Worksheet
• Copy a Specific Cell Range between Worksheets

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>14.11.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
    

Copy a Specific Cell Range within a Worksheet

Spire.XLS for Java provides Worksheet.copy() method, which supports copying a specific cell range in the same worksheet. The following are detailed steps.

• Create a new Workbook object.
• Load an Excel file from disk using Workbook.loadFromFile() method.
• Get the first worksheet of this file by using Workbook.getWorksheets().get() method.
• Get the source range and target range of the first sheet using Worksheet.getCellRange() method.
• Copy the specific cell range within a worksheet by calling Worksheet.copy() method.
• Finally, specify the output path and save the result file using Workbook.saveToFile() method.

import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
import com.spire.xls.Worksheet;

public class CopyRow {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //Create a Workbook instance
        Workbook wb = new Workbook();

        //Load a sample Excel file from disk
        wb.loadFromFile("sample.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013);

        //Get the first worksheet
        Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);

        //Get the source range and target range
        CellRange sourceRange = sheet.getCellRange("A1:E1");
        CellRange destRange = sheet.getCellRange("A10:E10");

        //Copy a specific cell range within a worksheet
        sheet.copy (sourceRange,destRange,true);

        //Save the result file
        wb.saveToFile("CopyRangeWithinSheet.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013);
        wb.dispose();
    }
}

Copy a Specific Cell Range between Worksheets

Spire.XLS for Java library also allows you to copy cell range from one sheet to another sheet effortlessly. The following are the steps to duplicate cell range between different worksheets.

• Create a new Workbook object.
• Load an Excel file from disk using Workbook.loadFromFile() method.
• Get the first and second worksheets of this file by using Workbook.getWorksheets().get() method.
• Get the source range and target range using Worksheet.getCellRange() method.
• Copy the specific cell range from sheet1 to sheet2 by calling Worksheet.copy() method.
• Auto fit the column width in sheet2 by using Worksheet.autoFitColumn() method
• Finally, specify the output path and save the result file using Workbook.saveToFile() method.

import com.spire.xls.CellRange;
import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion;
import com.spire.xls.Workbook;
import com.spire.xls.Worksheet;

public class CopyRow {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //Create a Workbook instance
        Workbook wb = new Workbook();

        //Load a sample Excel file from disk
        wb.loadFromFile("sample.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013);

        //Get the first worksheet 
        Worksheet sheet1 = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);

        //Get the second worksheet 
        Worksheet sheet2 = wb.getWorksheets().get(1);

        //Get the source range and target range
        CellRange sourceRange = sheet1.getCellRange("A1:E1");
        CellRange destRange = sheet2.getCellRange("A1:E1");

        //Copy a specific cell range from sheet1 to sheet2
        sheet1.copy (sourceRange,destRange,true);

        //Auto fit column width in sheet 2
        for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
            sheet2.autoFitColumn(i+1);
        }

        //Save the result file
        wb.saveToFile("CopyRangeBetweenSheets.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013);
        wb.dispose();
    }
}

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