Example: Setting Worksheet Tab Colours

This program is an example of setting worksheet tab colours. See the set_tab_color() method for more details.

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Code:

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#
# Example of how to set Excel worksheet tab colours using Python
# and the XlsxWriter module..
#
# Copyright 2013, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
#
from xlsxwriter.workbook import Workbook

workbook = Workbook('tab_colors.xlsx')

# Set up some worksheets.
worksheet1 = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet2 = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet3 = workbook.add_worksheet()
worksheet4 = workbook.add_worksheet()

# Set tab colours
worksheet1.set_tab_color('red')
worksheet2.set_tab_color('green')
worksheet3.set_tab_color('#FF9900')  # Orange

# worksheet4 will have the default colour.

workbook.close()

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