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Shrink Text to Fit in a Cell in Excel using Java

 

When inputting a long text in a cell, Excel provides two ways to enable you to fit the text within one cell, they are: wrap text and shrink to fit. In the previous article, I already introduced how to wrap text in Java, in this article, I am going to demonstrate how to shrink text to fit the text in a cell in Java.

The library I used

Free Spire.XLS for Java

Before using the following code, you need to add dependencies for including Free Spire.XLS for Java library in your Java project. For maven project, add the following code to your project’s pom.xml file.

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<repositories>   
    <repository>   
        <id>com.e-iceblue</id>   
        <name>e-iceblue</name>   
        <url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>   
    </repository>   
</repositories>   
<dependencies>   
    <dependency>   
        <groupId> e-iceblue </groupId>   
        <artifactId>spire.xls.free</artifactId>   
        <version>3.9.1</version>   
    </dependency>   
</dependencies>

For non-maven project, download Free Spire.XLS for Java pack from this website and add Spire.Xls.jar in the lib folder into your project as a dependency.

Shrink Text to Fit in a Cell

The main steps to shrink text to fit in a cell are:

  • Create a Workbook object and load an Excel file
  • Get the worksheet and cell range to shrink text
  • Call setShrinkToFit method to enable shrinkToFit.
  • Save the result file.

Here is the full code for your reference.

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import com.spire.xls.*;
 
public class ShrinkTextToFitInACell {
    public static void main(String []args) throws Exception {
        //Create a workbook instance
        Workbook workbook = new Workbook();
 
        //Load the Excel file
        workbook.loadFromFile("Sample.xlsx");
 
        //Get the first worksheet
        Worksheet sheet = workbook.getWorksheets().get(0);
 
        //Get the cell range to shrink text
        CellRange cell = sheet.getRange().get("B2:B3");
 
        //Enable ShrinkToFit
        cell.getCellStyle().setShrinkToFit(true);
 
        //Save the file
        workbook.saveToFile("ShrinkTextToFitInACell.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013);
    }
}

The input Excel:

Input Excel before Shrinking Text

The output Excel:

Output Excel after Shrinking Text


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