Java POI excel paging sheets

Question

I'm working on a excel workbook, using Java POI .

I have several sheets and I need to add Pagination to 4 of them. The problem is :

How I am suppose to attribute a global pagination to these sheets ?

sheet.getFooter().setRight(HeaderFooter.page()); only works for ONE sheet.

Cordially.

Answer 1

The Excel file format mandates that a footer is always per sheet, even in Excel itself you have to set up the footer for each sheet separately as far as I know. So the Apache POI API reflects this and you need to set the footer for each sheet.

Naturally you can write a helper function where you pass in the Sheet object to not have to code it 4 times here.