Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Google Group

Office 2007 did not want to "eat" files. Solution included.

2009-12-17T13:17:51Z

Hello.
Recently I met a bug: MS Office 2003 read files, generated with S::WE,
and 2007 did not. In fact, MSO2007 read them, but after "restoring",
and with all nice markup (column sizes, fonts and colors) lost.
Solution was simple: do not use workbook method "set_properties".
I consider it a bug in module, but still there's a workaround.

Hebrew text in wrong encoding?

2009-12-14T14:11:40Z

Hello,
I'm trying to write Hebrew string into Excel file, but in Excel it's
not displayed correctly.
I see ãåâîä ùì òáøéú. Something with encoding, but I can't understand
what going wrong. When I store same string in plain text file and open
it in Notepad, I see right Hebrew text - therefore, this is ANSI

Autofilter on multiple non-adjacent columns

2009-12-08T00:10:55Z

Is there a way of applying an autofilter on two (or more) non-adjacent
columns, e.g.

$worksheet->autofilter(0, 5, $row, 5);
$worksheet->autofilter(0, 8, $row, 8);

If I do this only the last autofilter is implemented. Is there a way
to do it on a list of columns?

Regards.

saving values from formula

2009-12-03T22:20:13Z

i often do something like:

$wks->write(6, 1, "=COUNTIF('Tab 7'!A7:A$offset,\"X\")", $formats
{normal_integer});

This counts up how many items in cells A7 through A-whatever in some
other tab have the letter X in them.

is there a way to "get at" or "store" the result of the COUNTIF in a
variable? so i could use it for some logic further down in the code?

Support for user defined functions?

2009-11-30T23:29:39Z

Hi:

My company has a library of User defined functions (implemented in
an .xll file) that we deploy to our users' desktops. We would like to
use Spreadsheeet::WriteExcel on our servers to create spreadsheets
containing these functions.

I found the folloiwng line in your documentation at:
..."Any additional functions that are available through the "Analysis

Announce: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel version 2.30

2009-11-30T17:01:57Z

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel version 2.30 has been released to CPAN.

The release between 2.27 and 2.30 contain new documentation for the
example programs and make 0.19 of OLE::Storage_Lite a prerequisite to
avoid issues when using set_properties with Windows 7 or Gnumeric.

The new example program documentation with screenshots included can be

Announce: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel version 2.26

2009-11-14T12:59:45Z

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel version 2.26 has been released to CPAN.

This release contains initial support for defined names in Excel,
fixes for issues with imported images and a few other minor fixes.

[link]

Note, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is now on Github:

formatting within strings?

2009-11-06T22:31:11Z

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is wonderful, thanks for the great work.

I've been asked to program something I don't think it can do, that is,
write text strings with intra-string formatting.

For example I'd like to put in text strings that are partly but not
completely underlined. In HTML-speak this might be, for example

64-bit issue?

2009-11-05T22:58:48Z

Hey guys, has anyone tried making spreadsheets in a 64-bit environment
yet? I've encountered a problem. Let me describe:

I am using Office 2007, latest patches.
I am using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.25.
I'm running Perl 5.10.

1) Generate a spreadsheet within a 32-bit Windows XP environment
2) Copy the spreadsheet to a 64-bit Windows 7 environment.

Centering an image

2009-11-03T07:03:44Z

John;

I have several png files that represent trends (up, down and no
change). They are 16px x 16px, Can they be centered using formats?
Currently they are flush left. Do I need to create the graphic as wide
as the column? Thge column width is 10 row height is 22.

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel update

2009-10-31T05:54:03Z

Hi,

For the last few months I have been overloaded with work and haven't
had any free time to develop WriteExcel or even to reply (promptly) to
questions.

This probably won't change in the short term (although given the
current climate I may find myself with a lot of free time on my hands
at any time).

Excel to perl

2009-10-29T02:49:41Z

John;

I might be crazy,but I think there was a script that read an existing
excel file and created a perl program from it. Am I right? if so where
can I get it?

FAQ: Why does my Spreadsheet::WriteExcel not load correctly in Excel.

2009-10-21T14:20:04Z

Using Spreadsheet::WriteExcelXML I managed to generate a simple file
that fails to load in Excel 2003 and 2007.
The xml file below contains a single cell value "[link] org"
intentionally replacing '.' with space.
The write() method detects it as a URL and write_url() is called
resulting in this xml output.

Bug report: formula parsing in Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

2009-10-21T08:47:32Z

use warnings;
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $workbook=Spreadsheet::WriteEx cel->new("bad_file.xls");

my $sheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();

$sheet->write_col(0,0,[1 .. 10]);
$sheet->write_formula(0,1,3.14 159);

$sheet->write_formula(1,1,'=MA TCH(B1,A1:A10)'); # <-- Problem on cell

Column Hiding FAST, Row Hiding SLOOOOOOOW!

2009-10-15T18:24:34Z

The last thing I want to do to the worksheet I'm exporting is hide all
the extra rows and columns.

This snippet hides the columns quickly and with no bloat:
$worksheet->set_column('Q:IV', undef, undef, 1);

However, set_row doesn't seem to work on more than one row at a time.
This only sets row 66 and ignores the rest:

Vlookup in Excel returns False or 0 when executing

2009-10-14T14:34:07Z

Hi,

I am in the process of self teaching myself Perl and in particular
WriteExcel. I have designed a whole workbook but when I come to
approach doing the Vlookup I hit a snag!

$formula = q{=IF(VLOOKUP(C3,Data Rev!A:B,2,0))};
$formula = $excel_sheet1->store_formula($ formula);
@$iferror = map {s/_ref2d/_ref2dV/;$_} @$iferror;

Some formulas calc'd, others not

2009-10-13T19:18:49Z

I am writing a script to convert a plain-text report to Excel but when
I open it in Excel not all of the formulas calculate. In the table
there are some base data, SUMIF()s to give a summation for the table,
and then some formulas that build percents off of the SUMIF()s and
base data. Every single cell is correct as far as what it contains

Problem with worksheets containing large numbers of links/URLs

2009-09-24T22:20:04Z

I've found an interesting problem/bug/interaction between the
WriteExcel module and Excel 2003 on WinXP.

If I have more than 65 thousand individual links in a given worksheet
(written with write_url), Excel fails to open the file.
If I have few enough links, excel goes into 'repair' mode and destroys

Problems using text_wrap with merge_range

2009-09-15T01:32:19Z

Hello All,

I'm trying to use text_wrap and merge_range together. Here is my
test script:

------------------------------
use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
my $Long = 'This is a long text I typed just as a test trying to
figure out why text_wrap gets screwed when I open the spreadsheet

Workbook not closing?

2009-09-02T21:53:58Z

I can't seem to unmount a folder where I've created a spreadsheet.
My code does have
$workbook -> close() or die "Couldn't close workbook $!" ;
which never throws an error, and yet if I remove the spreadsheet
generating code it unmounts just fine.

Complete code is at [link]

Image is not sharp after using insert_image()

2009-09-01T12:15:10Z

Hello everybody,

I want to code a Perl script that will insert images (PNG format -
they are actually some RRDTOOL graphs) into some Excel file using the
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module.

I have the image on disc and it looks normal when opened with some
file viewer, or even with Firefox (file:///xxx). After it's inserted

How to Delete Last Row from .csv file in perl

2009-08-28T12:19:04Z

Hi ,
I've a perl script to convert .xls to .csv .After conversion I want to
delete first 28 and the last row from .csv file.Is there any efficent way to
achive this both together.
I'm deleting first 28 rows by using folllowing my perl code:
exec " tail -n+28 infile.csv > outfile.csv
I tried
exec " tail -n+28 infile.csv > infile.csv

Images in header?

2009-08-25T09:40:05Z

Is there a way to insert images into the header and footer of a page?

My alternative is to set the margins to 0 an use the first row as
"header" row. But this seems to be a less than optimum way to go.

set print row/column used on continuation pages?

2009-08-17T16:20:55Z

Is there a way to set the row/columns referenced in the Excel print
setup dialog that control the rows/columns that will be printed on
continuation pages?

thanks,
- Gary

Excel on the command line

2009-08-16T22:22:20Z

While Googling for the answer to a S::WE question,
I ran into this tool:
[link]
Xlsperl is basically a wrapper around S::PE and
can do some interesting things like grep-ing
through the cells/rows of an Excel spreadsheet.
For example,
XLSperl -nale '/pattern/ and print "$ARGV:$WS:$CELL $_"' *.xls

xls2csv

2009-08-10T12:48:11Z

Hi,
I'm trying following program to convert .xls file to .csv.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simpl e;
xls2csv('ajay.xls','ajay.csv') ;
sub xls2csv
{
my ($filename, $csvname) = @_;
my $xls = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simpl e->read($filename) or die "Can't
read $filename: $!";
my $cnt = 0;

max rows

2009-08-03T14:59:26Z

I need to overcome the max_rows, 65536, limit. Is there something I
can do?

Setting "Entire Workbook" in print options

2009-07-31T14:21:54Z

Hi,

Is there a way to set the option "Entire Workbook" in the Print
options of the current workbook? We have two sheets contained in a
workbook and want the default to have both sheets printed. Thanks!

Formula

2009-07-31T13:57:15Z

Can you write me a formula for the following: In Column 64C, I want to
add all monetary values in column D2 through D60 with a corresponding
entry in column F2 through F60 that indicates TELEPHONE. This is the
best I can explain it! Thanks

Selecting an option in a data validation list

2009-07-28T18:17:20Z

Read through the docs and the forum and couldn't find any mention of
this, but when creating a data validation list, how do you select one
of the options using WriteExcel?

In this example, I'd like to have users open the XLS with the 'high'
option already selected.

validate => 'list',
value => ['open', 'high', 'close'],

why do I keep getting "Can't locate object method data_validation" errors?

2009-07-28T10:35:19Z

Keep getting this error even though I installed v2.25 of WriteExcel.

Thing is, the system I'm on had an old version of it (v2.20) and I
can't update that (no access), so I installed 2.25 in a different
location and pointed to it with a 'use lib' line. That new location
is in @INC, so that should've done the trick, right?

data_validation not working , and get a #VALUE!

2009-07-27T12:08:38Z

I am attaching my excel sheet.
see worksheet Sheet1.

Column B and C are data validation lists
and D uses a lookup function to determine its value.

For data validation lists if I simply open the dialog and press enter
it starts working.
Similarly if I double click the cell in col D all starts to work.

Does anyone have a patch for fixing list validation in version 2.25 when using a cell range as the source?

2009-07-24T21:25:37Z

I ran into the known issue, where data_validation doesn't work
properly when doing list validation and passing in a range of cells
instead of an array. I want to create some rather large validation
drop downs and can't pass all the items in an array. I want to place
many list values in the worksheet (in a hidden column) and then

Problem parsing formula

2009-07-22T17:26:37Z

I've been trying to get the following formula to work with
write_formula:
$mainsheet->write($xlsrowloc, $LRP_col_num, "VLOOKUP($A1,Points!
B6:Points!D10,3,TRUE)", $format_normal);

$A1 = 4 by the way...

and receive the error:

Couldn't parse formula: =VLOOKUP(E6,Points!B6:Points!D 10,3,TRUE) at...

Array Formulas

2009-07-13T20:53:07Z

Does this conversion support calculations based on the conditions in
an array?

Disable cell in excel spreadsheet 07

2009-06-23T06:19:38Z

Dear all,
Is there any way we can disable cell of excel 2007
spreadsheet so that user can only see the changes and cannot write it
in the cell ?

Excel Template copy/filling

2009-06-16T18:22:45Z

Hi John,

Could you please suggest me a method for this situation

Background
I collect some data from multiple sources; based on which I have to
prepare a comprehensive
excel report which needs to be forwarded to multi-stake holders.
I have a formula based Excel template in which I feed the data and

Formula error

2009-06-03T11:45:23Z

Hi,

I am able to write the formula's correctly to the Excel files, however
when the formula references another formula cell, the result is
"#VALUE". I will have to manually go to the specific cell and enforce
Excel to parse it. I don't change anything, but need to do a manual
step.

Is there anyway I could do the same directly thru the perl code/

Re: [Spreadsheet::WriteExcel] Re: Excel Formula Issue

2009-06-02T11:51:42Z

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Priscilla Roopal Daniel
Hi,
It looks like you are making a substitution to the same P10 variable twice
in a row. This type of error is explained in the repeat_formula() section of
the docs:
[link]...))

Numeric formatting

2009-05-28T16:42:29Z

I'm sure this is not new, but here's a twist...

column has a zip code that might look like:

1. 18940
2. 18940-
3. 08620-1234
4. 08620

Turn out case 4 as expected is the problem...so what format specifier
magically makes this work as expected and keeps the leading zero in
case 4?

Thanks

Streaming output of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

2009-05-26T03:06:59Z

Hi All,

I have created a web based reporting system, which uses mod_perl and
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to output an xls file to the user who can then
save it to their PC.

I have it working nicely, but have come across one little thing which
would make it better for my end users.

At the moment when a user requests a report which creates a large

trouble with formula

2009-05-22T03:22:47Z

I'm trying to have a text file converted to excel. Everything works
until I try to add a formula.
I want to add a formula to the end of one column, no matter how many
rows that column may have. (It will grow throughout the day.)

The script reads the text file into an array, and determines its

Problem with formula and workbookbig

2009-05-21T17:31:59Z

Hi friends

I am working with the fork for PHP and creating a very large xls, with
more than 20,000 rows

at the end of the last row I need to sum all a colummn, something very
simple "=sum(A1:A18000)"

I work this with write_formula but when I see the xls the sum formula
change the number of my last row (A18000) to another number but minor

why do I keep getting "Can't locate object method ..." errors?

2009-05-12T17:20:11Z

Hello,
I keep getting "Can't locate object method ..." errors and can't
figure out why. I get this error when trying to use "set_properties",
"compatibility_mode" and "data_validation".

For example, I get the following error when using "$workbook-

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Problems with formula and date/time format

2009-05-12T08:52:30Z

1. Here are the informations about my system :

Perl version : 5.008007
OS name : solaris
Module versions: (not all are required)
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.25
Parse::RecDescent 1.94
File::Temp 0.16

divide by zero formula error

2009-05-06T21:48:57Z

Is there any way to suppress these other than doing an if statement?

From what I can tell there isnt, but I thought Id ask anyways.

Thanks, Jim

Still using Win32::OLE and Excel 2003; Problems with detecting Excel, FreezePanes not working

2009-05-04T16:25:40Z

Still using Win32::OLE and Excel 2003.

1) The user can abort out of the perl program, or have a copy of excel
open, and the script will leave a copy of Excel in memory. Can this be
detected by perl the next time it is executed?

2) I have seen several examples of how to set the freeze pane. I don't

Convert Excel to Jpeg

2009-05-04T06:46:53Z

I have created excel sheet using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel in perl , Now
I want to convert this sheet into JPEG or any picture format using
perl itself.

Can you Help me?

Rajendra

Pivot Tables

2009-04-29T22:05:41Z

Has anybody used ::WriteExcel to create Pivot Tables in in excel?
Pivot tables were available in excel 97-2003. My main goal, right now, is
to be able to drill-down to another -- DETAIL-- worksheet from a general
worksheet. Apparently, pivot tables in excel 97 allow this. Anybody have
an idea as to how this would be set up?

Off topic - My perl excel script works for me, but not my users..

2009-04-29T14:54:42Z

My company is still using Excel 2003. I use Perlapp to create the
executable, trying to include all that is needed. However, when I log
into a different computer, as my users would, the perl script or the
executable seem to hang at about the place where I create a new excel
file. Even the debug print statements are not displayed.