Text with numbers are getting converted to numbers
Francois Botha edited this page May 18, 2021
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When you set the .Value
property of a cell, ClosedXML will call the .ToString()
method of the object and proceed to interpret the value as a number, date, boolean, time stamp, or text.
To insert a number as text you have the following options:
- Prepend a single quote character:
cell.Value = "'123";
- Use SetValue:
cell.SetValue("123"); // SetValue will not try to convert to the appropriate type.
- Change the cell's data type to text after it has the numeric value:
cell.SetValue(123).SetDataType(XLCellValues.Text);
- Set the cell's format to "@" before setting the value:
cell.Style.NumberFormat.Format = "@"; cell.Value = "123";
For more information see Data Types
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