How do I set cell value to Date and apply default Excel date format?

Question

I\'ve been using Apache POI for some time to read existing Excel 2003 files programmatically. Now I have a new requirement to create entire .xls files in-memory (still using

Answer 1

This example is for working with .xlsx file types. This example comes from a .jsp page used to create a .xslx spreadsheet.

import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.*; //import needed

XSSFWorkbook  wb = new XSSFWorkbook ();  // Create workbook
XSSFSheet sheet = wb.createSheet();      // Create spreadsheet in workbook
XSSFRow row = sheet.createRow(rowIndex); // Create the row in the spreadsheet


//1. Create the date cell style
XSSFCreationHelper createHelper = wb.getCreationHelper();
XSSFCellStyle cellStyle         = wb.createCellStyle();
cellStyle.setDataFormat(
createHelper.createDataFormat().getFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy")); 

//2. Apply the Date cell style to a cell

//This example sets the first cell in the row using the date cell style
cell = row.createCell(0);
cell.setCellValue(new Date());
cell.setCellStyle(cellStyle);