How to extract cell format (bold, italic, …) from an Excel file using Python?

Question

I'm trying to extract from an Excel file the content of a cell (essentially text) and the format of the text. The Excel I am dealing with looks like the screenshot below :

Texts in cells may be bold, italic or stroke and I need to extract the text and the format into a python string. For example, if a cell contains :

• line 1
• line 2
• line 3

I would like to obtain a string Python that's look like :

- line 1 /n- **line 2**/n- *line 3**

in order to get the text and the format information.

I've tried to find a solution using openpyxl, but it seems that it is only possible to apply and not extract format cell. Library xlrd seems not fitted for xlsx. I am currently trying with pyexcel library.

Do you have any idea ? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can import Font from openpyxl and check if a cell is written in bold by using cell.font.bold , it gives a True or False.

cell=sheet[A2]
bold_status=cell.font.bold
italic_status=cell.font.italic

More info on the fonts in openpyxl: http://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/2.5/api/openpyxl.styles.fonts.html