Cut and Paste Columns in Excel Range with c#

Question

I\'m trying to move column B in front of column Q in an excel sheet as part of a report I\'m working on. I have experience in VBA but relatively little in c# so I\'ve spent

Answer 1

This isn't very intuitive, but this is how I got it to work. I took an "insert" range and used the Insert() method and passed a "range.Cut()" method as the "Copy Origin" parameter.

Reference docs:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel.range.insert.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel.xlinsertshiftdirection.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel.range.cut.aspx

Here is a sample app (be sure to add a reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;

namespace ExcelCutAndInsertColumn
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Excel.Application xlApp = new Excel.Application();
            Excel.Workbook xlWb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(@"C:\stackoverflow.xlsx");
            Excel.Worksheet xlWs = (Excel.Worksheet)xlWb.Sheets[1]; // Sheet1

            xlApp.Visible = true;

            // cut column B and insert into A, shifting columns right
            Excel.Range copyRange = xlWs.Range["B:B"];
            Excel.Range insertRange = xlWs.Range["A:A"];

            insertRange.Insert(Excel.XlInsertShiftDirection.xlShiftToRight, copyRange.Cut());
        }
    }
}