Documentation: http://qtxlsx.debao.me

QtXlsx is a library that can read and write Excel files. It doesn't require Microsoft Excel and can be used in any platform that Qt5 supported. The library can be used to

• Generate a new .xlsx file from scratch
• Extract data from an existing .xlsx file
• Edit an existing .xlsx file

Getting Started

• For linux user, if your Qt is installed through package manager tools such "apt-get", make sure that you have installed the Qt5 develop package qtbase5-private-dev

Usage(1): Use Xlsx as Qt5's addon module

Building the module

Note

: Perl is needed in this step.

• Download the source code.

• Put the source code in any directory you like

• Open the qtxlsx.pro file using Qt Creator

• Build the project.

• Play with the examples provided by Qt Xlsx if you like.

• Go to the build directory of the project in a terminal and run

   make install

The library, the header files, and others will be installed to your system.

Note

: If you don't want to use Qt Creator, you can run following command at the toplevel directory of the project

qmake
make
make install

#### Using the module

* Add following line to your qmake's project file:

QT += xlsx

* Then, using Qt Xlsx in your code

```cpp
    #include <QtXlsx>
    int main()
    {
        QXlsx::Document xlsx;
        xlsx.write("A1", "Hello Qt!");
        xlsx.saveAs("Test.xlsx");
        return 0;
    }

Usage(2): Use source code directly

The package contains a qtxlsx.pri file that allows you to integrate the component into applications that use qmake for the build step.

• Download the source code.

• Put the source code in any directory you like. For example, 3rdparty:

    |-- project.pro
    |-- ....
    |-- 3rdparty\
    |     |-- qtxlsx\
    |     |

• Add following line to your qmake project file:

    include(3rdparty/qtxlsx/src/xlsx/qtxlsx.pri)

Note

: If you like, you can copy all files from src/xlsx to your application's source path. Then add following line to your project file:

include(qtxlsx.pri)

> **Note**: If you do not use qmake, you need to define the following macro manually

> ```
    XLSX_NO_LIB

• Then, using Qt Xlsx in your code

    #include "xlsxdocument.h"
    int main()
    {
        QXlsx::Document xlsx;
        xlsx.write("A1", "Hello Qt!");
        xlsx.saveAs("Test.xlsx");
        return 0;
    }

References

General

• https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter
• http://openpyxl.readthedocs.org
• http://officeopenxml.com/anatomyofOOXML-xlsx.php
• http://www.libxl.com
• http://closedxml.codeplex.com/
• http://epplus.codeplex.com/
• http://excelpackage.codeplex.com/
• http://spreadsheetlight.com/
• http://www.schemacentral.com/sc/ooxml/

Number formats

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff529356%28v=office.12%29.aspx
• http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/excel-custom-number-formats.htm
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/894805/excel-number-format-what-is-409
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/excel-help/create-a-custom-number-format-HP010342372.aspx