/* * An example of how to hide rows and columns using the libxlsxwriter * library. * * In order to hide rows without setting each one, (of approximately 1 million * rows), Excel uses an optimization to hide all rows that don't have data. In * Libxlsxwriter we replicate that using the worksheet_set_default_row() * function. * * Copyright 2014-2021, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org * */ #include "xlsxwriter.h" int main() { /* Create a new workbook and add a worksheet. */ lxw_workbook *workbook = workbook_new("hide_row_col.xlsx"); lxw_worksheet *worksheet = workbook_add_worksheet(workbook, NULL); lxw_row_t row; /* Write some data. */ worksheet_write_string(worksheet, 0, 3, "Some hidden columns.", NULL); worksheet_write_string(worksheet, 7, 0, "Some hidden rows.", NULL); /* Hide all rows without data. */ worksheet_set_default_row(worksheet, 15, LXW_TRUE); /* Set the height of empty rows that we want to display even if it is */ /* the default height. */ for (row = 1; row <= 6; row++) worksheet_set_row(worksheet, row, 15, NULL); /* Columns can be hidden explicitly. This doesn't increase the file size. */ lxw_row_col_options options = {.hidden = 1}; worksheet_set_column_opt(worksheet, COLS("G:XFD"), 8.43, NULL, &options); workbook_close(workbook); return 0; }