ColdFusion How do I set the cell padding when creating an excel spreadsheet?

Increase the width of the column, if it's right justified add padding-right: style

Can you give me an example?

The example depends on how you are coding it; can you post part of your code so I can see what you're doing and then I can help adjust it..

In excel, you can set the indent attribute for a cell.

e.g.

Range("A1").IndentLevel = 5

With coldfusion you can set the display attributes for a cell/rows/columns

e.g.

cellFormat = StructNew();
cellFormat.font = "Arial";
cellFormat.fontsize = "18";
cellFormat.color = "black";
cellFormat.alignment = "left";
cellFormat.verticalalignment = "vertical_top"
cellFormat.textwrap = "true";
cellFormat.fgcolor = "white";
cellFormat.indent=5;


SpreadsheetFormatcell( sheetObj, cellFormat, rowNum, colNum );

What property creates space above and below the text in a cell?
Is there one property to create space all around the text in a cell?

Here is my existing code:

<cfif structKeyExists(FORM, "export") AND structKeyExists(VARIABLES, "Results")>
      <cfset sObj = SpreadsheetNew(#discipline1#)>
   
    <!--- add query parmas in 1st row and center align --->
    <cfset columnsInQuery = listLen(results.columnList)>
    <cfset SpreadsheetMergeCells(sObj, 1, 1, 1, columnsInQuery)>
    <cfset SpreadSheetSetCellValue(sObj, querySummary, 1, 1)>
    <cfset SpreadsheetFormatRow(sObj, {alignment="center"}, 1)>

    <!--- add record count in 2nd row and center align --->
    <cfset SpreadsheetMergeCells(sObj, 2, 2, 1, columnsInQuery)>
    <cfset SpreadSheetSetCellValue(sObj, recordsSummary, 2, 1)>
    <cfset SpreadsheetFormatRow(sObj, {alignment="center"}, 2)>

        <!--- Create header row --->
      <cfset SpreadsheetAddRow(sObj, "EQ,lian,S,Sp,Pro,Num,D,Description,QTY,QTY2 ,UI,SN,Con,Date")>
      <cfset SpreadsheetFormatRows(sObj, {bold=TRUE,fgcolor="grey_25_percent",fontsize="12", alignment="center"}, "1-3")>
    <cfset SpreadsheetFormatRow(sObj, {topborder="medium"}, 3)>
      <cfset SpreadsheetAddRows(sObj, Results)>
      <cfset SpreadsheetFormatColumns(sObj, {fontsize="12",bottomborder="medium",leftborder="medium",rightborder="medium"},"1-14")>
   
   
     <cfset saveToFile = "C:\orders#createUUID()#.xls">
     <cfspreadsheet action="write" name="sObj" filename="#saveToFile#" overwrite="true">

     <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=Orders.xls">
     <cfcontent type="application/excel" file="#saveToFile#" deletefile="yes">
     <!---- we're finished so exit --->
     <cfabort />
</cfif>

How can I use SpreadsheetSetRowHeight for all rows?

The number of rows vary according to query results.

excel vba : Range("A").RowHeight  = 30;

Coldfusion Function:

SpreadsheetSetRowHeight

You can also try

rowFormat.rowheight

> How can I use SpreadsheetSetRowHeight for all rows?

(No points)

As gdemaria mentioned, there's SpreadsheetSetRowHeight. But it doesn't accept a range. You must call it in a loop.

    <cfset maxRow = Results.recordCount +  (number of header rows)>
    <cfloop from="1" to="#maxRow#" index="rowNum">
         <cfset SpreadsheetSetRowHeight(sObj, rowNum, (height you want))>
     </cfloop>

One more thing. I'm pretty sure Excel doesn't have the concept of cell padding like in html tables. AFAIK the best you can get is either change the row height (plus center align) like gdemaria suggested OR add indentation like pravinasar suggested. There is no setting to add padding on all sides.

Thanks _agx_ the loop worked great!

I'm having a problem with text wrapping and column width.

I want to text wrap the  third column header:
QTY REC to
QTY
REC

I tried using:
 <cfset SpreadsheetFormatCell(sObj, {textwrap=true}, 2, 3)>
 <cfset SpreadSheetSetColumnWidth(sObj, 3, 3)>

Without any effect.

You can have textwrap

cellFormat.textwrap = "true";

But this would ensure you have break at particular location.
You can force line breaks to appear in cell contents by

value= "Line 1" & chr(10) & "Line 2"

How do I utilize/format this line in my spreadsheet code?

value= "Line 1" & chr(10) & "Line 2"

<cfset value= "Line 1" & chr(10) & "Line 2"?

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Big THANKS to everyone!

@DJPro - I think you accidentally omitted pravinasar's response as part of the answer. He mentioned using chr(10) to force a new line. (I just combined both of your answers into a working example.) If you want to reallocate, just use the "Request Attention" link in the original question and the mods can re-open it for you.  Cheers!

It is weird

I put quite a bit of effort in explaining with cf functions

And I get zero

Have a nice year