EXCEL AUTOMATION WITH

OPENPYXL IN PYTHON

Umer Saeed
BSc Electrical Engineering, MS Data Science
Department of Information System
School of Business and Economics
University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Sr. RF Optimization and Planning Engineer
umersaeed1981@gmail.com

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objective
❑ This code is setting the horizontal and vertical alignment of the text in all cells in all sheets of the workbook
to be centered.

❑ Also discussed the other options such as;

▪ Horizontal
▪ Vertical
▪ WrapText
▪ textRotation

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Alignment

❑ The workbook file can be manipulated and modified using methods and properties provided by
the openpyxl library.

❑ This line of code uses the openpyxl library to load a Microsoft Excel workbook file named “ABC.xlsx"
into a variable wb.

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Alignment
❑ This code sets the alignment of each cell
in every worksheet of a given workbook
wb to center both horizontally and
vertically.
❑ The code loops through each worksheet in the
workbook, and then iterates through each row
and cell in the sheet. For each cell, the
cell.alignment attribute is set to an instance of
the Alignment class from the openpyxl.styles
module.
❑ The Alignment class takes two optional
arguments, horizontal and vertical, which
specify how the text in the cell should be
aligned. In this code, both horizontal and
vertical alignments are set to 'center'.
❑ Here are the possible values for horizontal and vertical
alignment:
▪ horizontal:
• general: Align the text based on the data type
• left: Align the text to the left
• center: Align the text to the center
• right: Align the text to the right
• fill: Fill the cell with the text and align it horizontally
• justify: Align the text to both left and right margins
• centerContinuous: Center the text across a continuous range of cells
• distributed: Distribute the text evenly across the width of the cell
▪ vertical:
• top: Align the text to the top of the cell
• center: Align the text to the center of the cell
• bottom: Align the text to the bottom of the cell
• justify: Align the text to both top and bottom margins
• distributed: Distribute the text evenly across the height of the cell
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wrapText

❑ The wrapText property in openpyxl.styles.Alignment controls whether text in a cell should wrap to
multiple lines or be displayed on a single line.

❑ If wrapText is set to True, the text in the cell will wrap to fit within the cell's width.

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textRotation

❑ The textRotation property of the Alignment class in the openpyxl.styles module allows you to
control the orientation of the text in a cell.

❑ By default, text is oriented horizontally, with each line of text appearing in a separate row. The
textRotation property allows you to change this orientation by rotating the text by a certain number
of degrees, which can be positive or negative. A positive angle will rotate the text counterclockwise,
while a negative angle will rotate the text clockwise.

❑ For example, setting textRotation=90 will rotate the text in the cell by 90 degrees, causing each line
of text to appear in a separate column instead of row. You can also set textRotation=-90 to achieve
the same effect but with clockwise rotation.

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