Highlight Highest and Lowest Value in Excel in Java

This article demonstrates how to highlight the highest and lowest value in a cell rang through conditional formatting. You can also highlight the top 5 or bottom 5 values by passing 5 to setRank() method in the code snippet below.

import com.spire.xls.*;

import java.awt.*;

public class HighlightTopBottom {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //Create a Workbook object
        Workbook workbook = new Workbook();

        //Load the sample Excel file
        workbook.loadFromFile("G:\\360MoveData\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\sales report.xlsx");

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

        //Apply conditional formatting to range "B2:E5" to highlight the highest value
        ConditionalFormatWrapper format1 = sheet.getCellRange("B2:E5").getConditionalFormats().addCondition();
        format1.setFormatType(ConditionalFormatType.TopBottom);
        format1.getTopBottom().setType(TopBottomType.Top);
        format1.getTopBottom().setRank(1);
        format1.setBackColor(Color.red);

        //Apply conditional formatting to range "B2:E5" to highlight the lowest value
        ConditionalFormatWrapper format2 = sheet.getCellRange("B2:E5").getConditionalFormats().addCondition();
        format2.setFormatType(ConditionalFormatType.TopBottom);
        format2.getTopBottom().setType(TopBottomType.Bottom);
        format2.getTopBottom().setRank(1);
        format2.setBackColor(Color.yellow);

        //Save the document
        workbook.saveToFile("output/HighestLowestValue.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2016);
    }
}

Highlight Highest and Lowest Value in Excel in Java