![]() The following table shows the Excel format categories, the formatting Locale formatting which will then be rendered in the settings of your host OS. ![]() In order to replicate Excel’s behavior all XlsxWriter programs should use US For example, here is the same, unmodified, output file shown above in aĪnd here is the same file in a Russian locale. #,#0.00, but renders it according to the regional settings of the host Storing the number format in the file format in the US locale, in this case Set in the “Region” settings of Windows or Mac OS. In other locales these values may be reversed or different. Separator is “,” and the “decimal” point is “.” this would be shown in Excel In the US locale (and some others) where the number “grouping/thousands” add_worksheet () currency_format = workbook. Workbook ( 'currency_format.xlsx' ) worksheet = workbook. This is an update of a post from December 2010.Import xlsxwriter workbook = xlsxwriter. And for totals, select your cell(s) and click the down arrow next to the underline button on the ribbon, You’ll find a choice there for double underline. (If you underline first, it won’t work.) In Excel this is called Accounting Underline. Or will it? If you first format cells with either the comma format or the accounting format and then format the text as underlined, the underline will extend almost the entire width of the column. You could format the text in the headings to be underlined, but then the line will only be as wide as the text or numbers in the cell. But that is tedious to set up and interferes with using the ctrl+arrow or End+arrow keyboard shortcuts. A common solution is to have very narrow empty columns between the columns of data. But for totals or subtotals, many people don’t like the continuous line that it creates they would prefer a separate underline in each column. ![]() ![]() Putting a bottom border on a row of cells can be a good choice for column headings on a spreadsheet. Most people that I’ve shown this to are just as surprised as I was when someone first showed me. ![]() Today’s Excel tip is very simple, but it can save a lot of time when formatting a spreadsheet. ![]()
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