Question

I’m using POI library to read excel sheets, xls and xlsx. I’m wondering if there is a way for me to determine what font family is used for a given cell. I’m specifically interested in determining if the font family is “symbol”, where “m” is displayed as “µ”.
Thanks,

David

Answer 1

From a Cell you can get the cell style, and from the cell style you can get the font index. Back on the workbook, you can get the font for an index and then get the font name

Code wise, you want something like:

 CellStyle style = cell.getCellStyle();
 short fontIdx = style.getFontIndex();
 Font font = workbook.getFontAt(fontIdx);
 String fontName = font.getFontName();