java - How to apply bold text style for an entire row using Apache POI?

Question

How to make an entire excel row cells bold text using Apache POI?

E.g:
Column headings should be in bold. Instead of applying style for each and every cell of heading row, how can I apply some style to an entire row?

Answer 1

This should work fine.

    Workbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook("myWorkbook.xlsx");
    Row row=sheet.getRow(0);
    CellStyle style=null;

    XSSFFont defaultFont= wb.createFont();
    defaultFont.setFontHeightInPoints((short)10);
    defaultFont.setFontName("Arial");
    defaultFont.setColor(IndexedColors.BLACK.getIndex());
    defaultFont.setBold(false);
    defaultFont.setItalic(false);

    XSSFFont font= wb.createFont();
    font.setFontHeightInPoints((short)10);
    font.setFontName("Arial");
    font.setColor(IndexedColors.WHITE.getIndex());
    font.setBold(true);
    font.setItalic(false);

    style=row.getRowStyle();
    style.setFillBackgroundColor(IndexedColors.DARK_BLUE.getIndex());
    style.setFillPattern(CellStyle.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
    style.setAlignment(CellStyle.ALIGN_CENTER);
    style.setFont(font);

If you do not create defaultFont all your workbook will be using the other one as default.