To download the trial version of EasyXLS Excel Library, press the below button:
If you already own a license key, you may login and download EasyXLS from your account.
Install the downloaded EasyXLS installer for v8.6 or earlier.
Step 2: License file setup
Step required for EasyXLS v9.0 or later.
If you are using a trial, generate a trial license file from EasyXLS trials page. The trial license is valid for 30-days.
If you own a license key, you may login to the account that purchased the license and generate the license file from: https://www.easyxls.com/my-orders
Setup the license file into your project using these guidelines.
Step 3: Add EasyXLS library to CLASSPATH in ColdFusion Administator
EasyXLS.jar must be included to class path for Java runtime environment.
EasyXLS.jar can be found: - Inside the downloaded archive at Step 1 for EasyXLS v9.0 or later - Under installation path for EasyXLS v8.6 or earlier, in "Lib" folder.
Another solution is to add EasyXLS.jar to "lib" folder from ColdFusion installation path.
Step 4: Run ColdFusion code that sets rich text format in Excel cells
Execute the following ColdFusion code that exports rich text format (RTF) in an Excel cell.
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Tutorial 19
This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file in ColdFusion having
multiple sheets. The first sheet is filled with data and the
first cell of the second row contains data in rich text format.
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--><!-- Constants Classes --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.DataType"name="DataType"action="CREATE">
Tutorial 19<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Create two worksheets --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("First tab")><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Second tab")><!-- Get the table of data for the first worksheet --><cfset xlsFirstTable = workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0).easy_getExcelTable()><!-- Create the string used to set the RTF in cell --><cfset sFormattedValue = "This is <b>bold</b>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <i>italic</i>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <u>underline</u>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <underline double>double underline</underline double>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <font color=red>red</font>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <font color=rgb(255,0,0)>red</font> too."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <font face=""Arial Black"">Arial Black</font>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <font size=15pt>size 15</font>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <s>strikethrough</s>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <sup>superscript</sup>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\nThis is <sub>subscript</sub>."><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "\n<b>This</b> <i>is</i> <font color=red face=""Arial Black"" size=15pt>"><cfset sFormattedValue = sFormattedValue & Chr(10) & "<underline double>formatted</underline double></font> <s>text</s>."><!-- Set the rich text value in cell --><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(1, 0).setHTMLValue(sFormattedValue)><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(1, 0).setDataType(DataType.STRING)><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(1, 0).setWrap(true)><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getRowAt(1).setHeight(250)><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getColumnAt(0).setWidth(250)><!-- Export Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial19 - RTF for Excel cells.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial19 - RTF for Excel cells.xlsx")><!-- Confirm export of Excel file --><cfset sError = workbook.easy_getError()><cfif (sError is "")><cfoutput>
File successfully created.
</cfoutput><cfelse><cfoutput>
Error encountered: #sError#
</cfoutput></cfif><!-- Dispose memory --><cfset workbook.Dispose()>
