Insert Header and Footer in Excel using Apache POI for Java
Apache POI is a popular Java library that allows you to work with Microsoft Office formats, including Excel spreadsheets. The Apache POI’s XSSF (XML Spreadsheet Format) module works with Excel files in the newer XML-based format, commonly known as .xlsx.
Headers and footers in Excel are the areas at the top and bottom of each page in a worksheet where you can place content such as titles, page numbers, dates, and other relevant information.
Add Image in Excel Cell with Java POI
Images make you understand any story the easy way. It’s a famous saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. Microsoft Excel lets you insert pictures in your worksheets in cells and recording facts against these. In this article, we’ll show how to use Apache POI API to insert an image in Excel XLSX file using Java.
Apache POI Apache POI is a Java library for working with Microsoft Office file formats such as XLS, XLSX, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, etc.
Read Excel File in Java with Apache POI
Excel files are widely used to maintain large datasets and for statistical data analysis. Reading Excel files in Java applications is a widely used feature for accessing and parsing data. If you are a Java application developer who intends to provide the functionality of reading Excel files in Java, Apache POI for Java should be your obvious choice.
In our previous article for Creating Excel Files in Java using Apache POI, we showed the basics of creating an Excel workbook.
Create Excel Workbook in Java using Apache POI
In our previous article, we went through the details of Apache POI, an open-source Java API for working with Microsoft file formats. In this article, we’ll go through the Apache POI component for working with Excel Workbooks. We will also show how to use Apache POI to create an Excel file and add sheets to it using this Java library.
Apache POI Java APIs for Accessing Excel File Formats Apache POI Java API provides separate components for working with two different Excel file formats.