Create a new style to apply to worksheet cells

createStyle(
  fontName = NULL,
  fontSize = NULL,
  fontColour = NULL,
  numFmt = openxlsx_getOp("numFmt", "GENERAL"),
  border = NULL,
  borderColour = openxlsx_getOp("borderColour", "black"),
  borderStyle = openxlsx_getOp("borderStyle", "thin"),
  bgFill = NULL,
  fgFill = NULL,
  halign = NULL,
  valign = NULL,
  textDecoration = NULL,
  wrapText = FALSE,
  textRotation = NULL,
  indent = NULL,
  locked = NULL,
  hidden = NULL
)

Arguments

fontName

A name of a font. Note the font name is not validated. If fontName is NULL, the workbook base font is used. (Defaults to Calibri)

fontSize

Font size. A numeric greater than 0. If fontSize is NULL, the workbook base font size is used. (Defaults to 11)

fontColour

Colour of text in cell. A valid hex colour beginning with "#" or one of colours(). If fontColour is NULL, the workbook base font colours is used. (Defaults to black)

numFmt

Cell formatting

  • GENERAL

  • NUMBER

  • CURRENCY

  • ACCOUNTING

  • DATE

  • LONGDATE

  • TIME

  • PERCENTAGE

  • FRACTION

  • SCIENTIFIC

  • TEXT

  • COMMA for comma separated thousands

  • For date/datetime styling a combination of d, m, y and punctuation marks

  • For numeric rounding use "0.00" with the preferred number of decimal places

border

Cell border. A vector of "top", "bottom", "left", "right" or a single string).

"top"

Top border

bottom

Bottom border

left

Left border

right

Right border

TopBottom or c("top", "bottom")

Top and bottom border

LeftRight or c("left", "right")

Left and right border

TopLeftRight or c("top", "left", "right")

Top, Left and right border

TopBottomLeftRight or c("top", "bottom", "left", "right")

All borders

borderColour

Colour of cell border vector the same length as the number of sides specified in "border" A valid colour (belonging to colours()) or a valid hex colour beginning with "#"

borderStyle

Border line style vector the same length as the number of sides specified in "border"

none

No Border

thin

thin border

medium

medium border

dashed

dashed border

dotted

dotted border

thick

thick border

double

double line border

hair

Hairline border

mediumDashed

medium weight dashed border

dashDot

dash-dot border

mediumDashDot

medium weight dash-dot border

dashDotDot

dash-dot-dot border

mediumDashDotDot

medium weight dash-dot-dot border

slantDashDot

slanted dash-dot border

bgFill

Cell background fill colour. A valid colour (belonging to colours()) or a valid hex colour beginning with "#". – Use for conditional formatting styles only.

fgFill

Cell foreground fill colour. A valid colour (belonging to colours()) or a valid hex colour beginning with "#"

halign

Horizontal alignment of cell contents

left

Left horizontal align cell contents

right

Right horizontal align cell contents

center

Center horizontal align cell contents

justify

Justify horizontal align cell contents

valign

A name Vertical alignment of cell contents

top

Top vertical align cell contents

center

Center vertical align cell contents

bottom

Bottom vertical align cell contents

textDecoration

Text styling.

bold

Bold cell contents

strikeout

Strikeout cell contents

italic

Italicise cell contents

underline

Underline cell contents

underline2

Double underline cell contents

accounting

Single accounting underline cell contents

accounting2

Double accounting underline cell contents

wrapText

Logical. If TRUE cell contents will wrap to fit in column.

textRotation

Rotation of text in degrees. 255 for vertical text.

indent

Horizontal indentation of cell contents.

locked

Whether cell contents are locked (if worksheet protection is turned on)

hidden

Whether the formula of the cell contents will be hidden (if worksheet protection is turned on)

Value

A style object

See also

Author

Alexander Walker

Examples

## See package vignettes for further examples

## Modify default values of border colour and border line style
options("openxlsx.borderColour" = "#4F80BD")
options("openxlsx.borderStyle" = "thin")

## Size 18 Arial, Bold, left horz. aligned, fill colour #1A33CC, all borders,
style <- createStyle(
  fontSize = 18, fontName = "Arial",
  textDecoration = "bold", halign = "left", fgFill = "#1A33CC", border = "TopBottomLeftRight"
)

## Red, size 24, Bold, italic, underline, center aligned Font, bottom border
style <- createStyle(
  fontSize = 24, fontColour = rgb(1, 0, 0),
  textDecoration = c("bold", "italic", "underline"),
  halign = "center", valign = "center", border = "Bottom"
)

# borderColour is recycled for each border or all colours can be supplied

# colour is recycled 3 times for "Top", "Bottom" & "Right" sides.
createStyle(border = "TopBottomRight", borderColour = "red")
#> A custom cell style. 
#> 
#>  Cell formatting: GENERAL 
#>  Cell borders: Top: thin, Bottom: thin, Right: thin 
#>  Cell border colours: #FF0000, #FF0000, #FF0000 
#>  
#> 

# supply all colours
createStyle(border = "TopBottomLeft", borderColour = c("red", "yellow", "green"))
#> A custom cell style. 
#> 
#>  Cell formatting: GENERAL 
#>  Cell borders: Top: thin, Bottom: thin, Left: thin 
#>  Cell border colours: #FF0000, #FFFF00, #00FF00 
#>  
#>