How to check whether excel values are formatted (bold/italic...)? C# Is it possible?

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How to check whether excel values are formatted (bold/italic...)? C#

I want to open one excel file pragmatically. I want to show that values from excel in to grid. But if excel values are bold, values in grid should be bold.
How can i do this?

How can i read excel ? If i read excel in to data table, how can i check whether values are bold\italic ?

For example.
I have one excel file with two columns.Some of the values in that excel are bold.Some of them are italic. I want to add these values in excel in to a grid view. If value in the excel is bold value in grid should be bold. So i want to check whether the value in excel is bold\italic.
If i read excel in to datatable then show in gridview will not check the format of that value in excel.In grid view it will a plain text.

Posted 21-Nov-14 2:11am

Am Gayathri

Updated 23-Nov-14 19:52pm

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ZurdoDev 21-Nov-14 11:11am

If you read it as a DataTable you can't because that's just data and not formatting. You'll need to use the Excel Interop dll.

Am Gayathri 24-Nov-14 1:24am

Can i do this if i use Excel interop dll ?

Maciej Los 23-Nov-14 15:58pm

What have you done till now? Where are you stuck?

Am Gayathri 24-Nov-14 1:24am

I have to start but thinking how can i read excel and how can i check whether values is bold?

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Praneet Nadkar · Answer 1 · 2014-11-23T19:30:00

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Hi Kavitha,

As Ryan said, you will have to use Interop to apply formatting.
And yes you can do this if you use Interop
Check out these examples:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7401996/microsoft-interop-excel-formatting-cells[^]
Formatting columns in Excel[^]

Regards,
Praneet

Posted 23-Nov-14 19:30pm

Praneet Nadkar

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Am Gayathri 24-Nov-14 1:51am

Hi Praneet,
Thanks for your replay.
I guess the example links you have given here is explains about how to format the excel. But my requirement is different. I want to check whether excel values are formatted.
For example.
I have one excel file with two columns.Some of the values in that excel are bold.Some of them are italic. I want to add these values in excel in to a grid view. If value in the excel is bold value in grid should be bold. So i want to check whether the value in excel is bold\italic.
If i read excel in to datatable then show in gridview will not check the format of that value in excel.In grid view it will a plain text.

Hope you understood requirement now.

[no name] 24-Nov-14 2:01am

Oh I see. In that case read your excel file into an excel object. Look here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/696864/Working-with-Excel-Using-Csharp

Then create a datatable with an aditional field to store the format. While converting this excel to a datatable, check for a format and insert italic or bold into the datatable column. And after bindinf this table to a grid, onrowdatabound you can apply your style for each row.

[no name] 24-Nov-14 2:02am

I think someone else could also suggest the best way to to that. I thought it that way

Am Gayathri 24-Nov-14 3:01am

R u experienced in SP2010 ?

[no name] 24-Nov-14 3:05am

No Kavitha. I am not.

Am Gayathri 24-Nov-14 2:06am

Thanks Praneet
Let me try this..:)