Find and Replace Text in Excel using Java

This article guides on how to implement the feature of text find and replace in Excel using Java. It has details to set the IDE, a list of steps, and a sample code to find and change in Excel using Java. You will also learn to customize the search and replace process by setting various properties and methods exposed by the library.

Steps to Replace Data in Excel using Java

  1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.Cells for Java to find and replace text
  2. Load the source Excel file into the Workbook containing the text that you want to replace
  3. Set up the FindOptions object by setting the look in and look at type
  4. Iterate through all the worksheets
  5. Iterate through all the cells in every sheet
  6. Use the find() method to search the text and the replace() method to change the text in the same cell if found
  7. Save the updated workbook after replacing a specific word

These instructions define the process to find and replace multiple values in Excel using Java. Load the source Excel file, iterate through each sheet in the workbook, iterate through each cell in a sheet, and find the cell containing the target cell. Use the replace() method to change the text and repeat the process for the next cell if found, and finally, save the updated Excel file on the disk.

Code to Replace a Word in Excel using Java

The above code has demonstrated the feature of automatic find and replace in Excel using Java. You can implement a Regex key for searching a text instead of finding the literals, find and replace text within a defined range of cells instead of the entire sheet, and handle the numeric data as per your requirements while searching the content. Set the case sensitivity for the search value, search the entire or partial text, and define whether searching is to be performed in cell contents, formula, or comments.

This article has taught us the process to find and replace text in an Excel file. To decrypt an Excel file, refer to the article on Decrypt Excel File in Java.