How to get a range of cells while retaining their format from an .xlsx document?

Question

I am trying to print a range of cells from xlsx to pdf using below code

from win32com import client

xlApp = client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
books = xlApp.Workbooks.Open('C:\\Users\....\\2020.xlsx')
ws = books.Worksheets['TEST']
ws.Visible = 1
ws.ExportAsFixedFormat(0, 'C:\\Users\.....\\trial.pdf')

This code works fine. However, I would like to tweak to print only the cells ranging from A1 to K50 ; and should retain the cell formatting from excel when converted to PDF. Is this possible?

Answer 1

It is very hard to format using python code with other third party packages. Below solution is useful when either the formatting requires a lot of effort or when the formatting may be dynamic & you may need to just print the excel like the way it is:

This solution is done using the below code (note the trick is using IgnorePrintAreas=False ), however, the ranges that I wanted to print I set it up as the printable range on excel. This will print the range that I am interested in & with the format that is present in Excel.

from win32com import client
xlApp = client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
books = xlApp.Workbooks.Open('C:\\Users\....\\2020.xlsx')
ws = books.Worksheets['TEST']
ws.Visible = 1
ws.ExportAsFixedFormat(0, 'C:\\Users\.....\\trial.pdf',IgnorePrintAreas=False)