Modify the default font — modifyBaseFont • openxlsx

Modify the default font for this workbook

modifyBaseFont(wb, fontSize = 11, fontColour = "black", fontName = "Calibri")

Arguments

wb: A workbook object
fontSize: font size
fontColour: font colour
fontName: Name of a font

Details

The font name is not validated in anyway. Excel replaces unknown font names with Arial. Base font is black, size 11, Calibri.

Author

Alexander Walker

Examples

## create a workbook
wb <- createWorkbook()
addWorksheet(wb, "S1")
## modify base font to size 10 Arial Narrow in red
modifyBaseFont(wb, fontSize = 10, fontColour = "#FF0000", fontName = "Arial Narrow")

writeData(wb, "S1", iris)
writeDataTable(wb, "S1", x = iris, startCol = 10) ## font colour does not affect tables
if (FALSE) {
saveWorkbook(wb, "modifyBaseFontExample.xlsx", overwrite = TRUE)
}