[java] Merging cells in Excel using Apache POI

Is there any other way to merge cells in Excel using Apache POI library?

I was trying using the following, but its not working

// selecting the region in Worksheet for merging data
CellRangeAddress region = CellRangeAddress.valueOf("A" + rowNo + ":D"
            + rowNo);

// merging the region
sheet1.addMergedRegion(region);

i made a method that merge cells and put border.

protected void setMerge(Sheet sheet, int numRow, int untilRow, int numCol, int untilCol, boolean border) {
    CellRangeAddress cellMerge = new CellRangeAddress(numRow, untilRow, numCol, untilCol);
    sheet.addMergedRegion(cellMerge);
    if (border) {
        setBordersToMergedCells(sheet, cellMerge);
    }

}



protected void setBordersToMergedCells(Sheet sheet, CellRangeAddress rangeAddress) {
    RegionUtil.setBorderTop(BorderStyle.MEDIUM, rangeAddress, sheet);
    RegionUtil.setBorderLeft(BorderStyle.MEDIUM, rangeAddress, sheet);
    RegionUtil.setBorderRight(BorderStyle.MEDIUM, rangeAddress, sheet);
    RegionUtil.setBorderBottom(BorderStyle.MEDIUM, rangeAddress, sheet);
}

You can use :

sheet.addMergedRegion(new CellRangeAddress(startRowIndx, endRowIndx, startColIndx,endColIndx));

Make sure the CellRangeAddress does not coincide with other merged regions as that will throw an exception.

• If you want to merge cells one above another, keep column indexes same
• If you want to merge cells which are in a single row, keep the row indexes same
• Indexes are zero based

For what you were trying to do this should work:

sheet.addMergedRegion(new CellRangeAddress(rowNo, rowNo, 0, 3));

The best answer

sheet.addMergedRegion(new CellRangeAddress(start-col,end-col,start-cell,end-cell));

syntax is:

sheet.addMergedRegion(new CellRangeAddress(start-col,end-col,start-cell,end-cell));

Example:

sheet.addMergedRegion(new CellRangeAddress(4, 4, 0, 5));

Here the cell 0 to cell 5 will be merged of the 4th row.