This program is an example of how to hide rows and columns in XlsxWriter.
An individual row can be hidden using the set_row() method:
worksheet.set_row(0, None, None, {'hidden': True})
However, in order to hide a large number of rows, for example all the rows after row 8, we need to use an Excel optimisation to hide rows without setting each one, (of approximately 1 million rows). To do this we use the set_default_row() method.
Columns don’t require this optimisation and can be hidden using set_column().
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# Example of how to hide rows and columns in XlsxWriter. In order to
# hide rows without setting each one, (of approximately 1 million rows),
# Excel uses an optimisation to hide all rows that don't have data.
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# Copyright 2013, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
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from xlsxwriter.workbook import Workbook
workbook = Workbook('hide_row_col.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()
# Write some data.
worksheet.write('D1', 'Some hidden columns.')
worksheet.write('A8', 'Some hidden rows.')
# Hide all rows without data.
worksheet.set_default_row(hide_unused_rows=True)
# Set the height of empty rows that we do want to display even if it is
# the default height.
for row in range(1, 7):
worksheet.set_row(row, 15)
# Columns can be hidden explicitly. This doesn't increase the file size..
worksheet.set_column('G:XFD', None, None, {'hidden': True})
workbook.close()