Always show two decimal points in excel cells using Apache poi

Question

For example,

XSSFCellStyle style=(XSSFCellStyle) workbook.createCellStyle();
style.setDataFormat(workbook.createDataFormat().getFormat("#.##"));

productCell.setCellValue(12.4);
productCell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC);
productCell.setCellStyle(style);

This displays 12.4 in the specified cell. It should be 12.40 . The value 12 is displayed as 12. which is quite unnecessary.

If the value is 0 then, it displays a dot . . It should always display two decimal digits - 0.00 , in this case regardless of the value being stored in a cell.

How to force excel to always show two decimal digits in a numeric cell?

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I use one of the following styles to display numeric cells.

XSSFColor commonColor = new XSSFColor(new java.awt.Color(240, 240, 240));
XSSFColor cellBorderColour = new XSSFColor(new java.awt.Color(0, 76, 153));

Font font = workbook.createFont();
font.setBoldweight(Font.BOLDWEIGHT_BOLD);
font.setColor(IndexedColors.DARK_BLUE.index);

XSSFCellStyle style = (XSSFCellStyle) workbook.createCellStyle();
style.setFillForegroundColor(commonColor);
style.setFillPattern(CellStyle.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
style.setAlignment(CellStyle.ALIGN_RIGHT);
style.setFont(font);

style.setBorderLeft(BorderStyle.HAIR);
style.setBorderColor(XSSFCellBorder.BorderSide.LEFT, cellBorderColour);
style.setBorderTop(BorderStyle.HAIR);
style.setBorderColor(XSSFCellBorder.BorderSide.TOP, cellBorderColour);
style.setBorderRight(BorderStyle.HAIR);
style.setBorderColor(XSSFCellBorder.BorderSide.RIGHT, cellBorderColour);
style.setBorderBottom(BorderStyle.DOUBLE);
style.setBottomBorderColor(cellBorderColour);

I applied some excel formulae to perform some calculations on numeric cells that are expected to be performed after applying a number format (rounding half up) on numeric cells.

Answer 1

In Excel formatting, a # means "place a digit here only if needed", but a 0 means "always place a digit here, even if it's an unnecessary 0". You can specify the data format in Apache POI exactly as you would in Excel itself . If you want the 0 digits to show up, then you need to use 0 s as formatting digits. Try

style.setDataFormat(workbook.createDataFormat().getFormat("0.00"));

This will make the value 0 show up as 0.00 and 12.4 as 12.40 .