xou / elixlsx

An Elixir XLSX writer

Elixlsx

Elixlsx is a writer for the MS Excel OpenXML format (.xlsx).

Features:

• Multiple (named) sheets with custom column widths & column heights.
• (Unicode-)strings, Numbers, Dates
• Font formatting (size, bold, italic, underline, strike)
• Horizontal alignment and text wrapping
• Font and cell background color, borders
• Merged cells

Installation

As of version 0.6, elixlsx requires Elixir 1.12 or above.

Installation via Hex, in mix.exs:

defp deps do
  [{:elixlsx, "~> 0.6.0"}]
end

Via GitHub:

defp deps do
  [{:elixlsx, github: "xou/elixlsx"}]
end

Usage

1-Line tutorial:

(alias Elixlsx.Workbook, alias Elixlsx.Sheet)
iex(1)> Workbook.append_sheet(%Workbook{}, Sheet.with_name("Sheet 1") |> Sheet.set_cell("A1", "Hello", bold: true)) |> Elixlsx.write_to("hello.xlsx")

See example.exs for examples how to use the various features.

• The workbook is a XML file ultimately, so remember that formulas containing "<" or ">" must be escaped properly.
• :xmerl_lib.export_text/1 can be used to escape formulas properly

Number and date formatting reference

A quick introduction how number formattings look like can be found here.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Nikolai Weh

This library is MIT licensed. See the LICENSE for details.