Allow leading zeros on a worksheet with EP Plus

Question

Hi I am using Ep Plus with a web application. I am creating an Excel file that the user can fill out and upload back to the application. When I enter in a number with leading zeros, they are truncated.

Is there away to allow leading Zeroes to be entered by the user?

Answer 1

The format that I needed was "@" so the line of code was

codeSheet.Cells["A:D"].Style.Numberformat.Format = "@";

Answer 2

The accepted answer for this question did not work for me. I found this article from Microsoft which solved my problem. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/81518/using-a-custom-number-format-to-display-leading-zeros

I was dealing with zip codes so I was able to do this:

workSheet.Column(4).Style.Numberformat.Format = "00000";

This works since my zipcodes will always be 5 digits.

Answer 3

Playing around with the style of the ExcelRange you can achieve what you want:

var range = // get the range you want
// Force the numbers to have 2 digits to the left and 1 digit to the right
// of the decimal place.
range.Style.NumberFormat.Format = "00.0"

You can play with the different formats available by opening Excel and playing with the number format dialog.

Answer 4

Make sure you use the insert or cell formatting as text not number than it should allow you to use leading zero

string text  = "'0001"

Answer 5

 Excel.Range formatRange;
    formatRange.NumberFormat = "@";