Auto size height for rows in Apache POI

Question

I am inputting values into a spreadsheet using Apache POI. These values have newlines, and I was able to use this code successfully:

CellStyle style = cell.getCellStyle()
style.setWrapText(true)
cell.setCellStyle(style)

Unfortunately, while the text is wrapping correctly, the rows are not always growing in height enough to show the content. How do I ensure that my rows are always the correct height?

Answer 1

currentRow.setHeight((short)-1)

Works for XSSFCell and Excel 2013

Answer 2

HSSFWorkbook workbook=new HSSFWorkbook();
HSSFSheet sheet =  workbook.createSheet("FirstSheet");  
HSSFRow rowhead=   sheet.createRow((short)0);
HSSFCellStyle style = workbook.createCellStyle();
style.setWrapText(true);
row.setRowStyle(style);
row.getCell(0).setCellStyle(style);

The above code will generate dynamic height of rows.

Answer 3

The only way I got this to work was write my own implementation to calculate the row height. The code is now released as the Taro project, so you could use that. It has numerous convenience methods to let you write an Excel file in far fewer lines of code.

If you prefer to put the implementation in your own code, you can find it in the SpreadsheetTab class. There is an autoSizeRow(int rowIndex) method half way down. It basically iterates down the row and for each cell finds the number of lines of text, then uses the font size to calculate the optimal cell height. It then sets the row height to the height of the tallest cell.