How to create a CellValue for a Decimal With Format (#,###.##) in OpenXML

Question

I'm currently working in the requirement of export an Excel file by using Open XML framework. The problem that I have, is that one of the columns of this spreadsheet has to be decimal in format (#,###.##) which has to allow sums. I could export the Excel perfectly in this format by using the following method:

private static Cell CreateTextCell(string header, UInt32 index, object text, CellStyleIndex cellStyle)
{
    var cell = new Cell
    {
        DataType = CellValues.InlineString,
        CellReference = header + index,
        StyleIndex = (UInt32)cellStyle
    };

    var istring = new InlineString();
    var t = new Text { Text = text.ToString() };
    istring.AppendChild(t);
    cell.AppendChild(istring);
    return cell;
}

As you can see, I'm specifying the StyleIndex which applies the format that I mentioned. But the problem with this is that Excel recognizes this value as a text:

That's why I tried to create a new method which is invoked as soon I want to create a decimal in the file:

private static Cell CreateValueCell(string header, UInt32 index, decimal value, CellStyleIndex cellStyle)
{
     var cell = new Cell
     {
         DataType = CellValues.Number,
         CellReference = header + index,
         StyleIndex = (UInt32)cellStyle,
         CellValue = new CellValue(value.ToString())
     };

     return cell;
}

By doing this, I reach how to convert as a number, but I lose the decimal places as you can see in the following image:

I saw a class named DecimalValue but I couldn't figure out how to append it to the cell. Any thoughts about how to solve it?

Answer 1

You should read that article .

Main concept is using custom CellFormat with NumberingFormat :

 var nformat4Decimal = new NumberingFormat
                     {
                         NumberFormatId = UInt32Value.FromUInt32(iExcelIndex++),
                         FormatCode = StringValue.FromString("#,##0.0000")
                     };