Julia using openpyxl to change column width & row height

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Hi all,

I am using Julia 1.5.0 with openpyxl and I want to change the column width in an excel worksheet.

The python way to this is depicted here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53906532/is-it-possible-to-change-the-column-width-using-openpyxl/53906585

However in Julia when I use openpyxl and try to do the same it does not work, because ws.column_dimensions is an empty dictionary

using Conda
Conda.add("openpyxl")
using PyCall
xl = pyimport("openpyxl")

# create a workbook
wb = xl.Workbook()

# select active worksheet
ws = wb.active

# try to change the width of the column A --> NOT working
ws.column_dimensions["A"].width = 25

The same problem exists if I try to change the height of the first row using

ws.row_dimensions[1].height = 30

Any hints?
Thanks

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Hi have you fixed it?

3

Unfortunately no (last attempt with Julia 1.5.2)

4

Hey :slight_smile: I had the same problem and I managed to solve it this way (for an existing .xlsx file):

from openpyxl.reader.excel import load_workbook
wb = load_workbook('output.xlsx')
sheet_ranges = wb['sheet1']
sheet_ranges.column_dimensions["A"].width = 40
wb.save('output.xlsx')

I hope it helps :slight_smile:

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@raph this is python, not julia… or am I missing something?

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For some reason putting the width setting inside py"""...""" works.

using PyCall
xl = pyimport("openpyxl")
wb = xl.Workbook()
ws = wb.active
# ws.column_dimensions["A"].width = 25  ## ERROR: KeyError: key "A" not found
py"""
$ws.column_dimensions["A"].width = 25
"""
wb.save("foo.xlsx")
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I had a similar problem with python-pptx, see python-pptx trouble · Issue #725 · JuliaPy/PyCall.jl · GitHub .