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Java/ Copy Cell Range in Excel

Copying and pasting content within or between documents is one of the most common operations in our daily work. This article will introduce how to copy a cell range within a worksheet or between two worksheets in a single Excel document by using Free Spire.XLS for Java.

Installation (2 Method)
1# Download the Free Spire.XLS for Java and unzip it, then add the Spire.Xls.jar file to your project as dependency.
2# You can also add the jar dependency to maven project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.

<repositories> <repository> <id>com.e-iceblue</id> <name>e-iceblue</name> <url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId> <artifactId>spire.xls.free</artifactId> <version>3.9.1</version> </dependency> </dependencies> 
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Copy a cell range within a worksheet

import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion; import com.spire.xls.Workbook; import com.spire.xls.Worksheet; public class CopyRow { public static void main(String[] args) { //Create a Workbook instance Workbook wb = new Workbook(); //Load a sample Excel file wb.loadFromFile("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Documents\\input.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013); //Get the first worksheet Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().get(0); //Copy a cell range within a worksheet sheet.copy(sheet.getCellRange("A1:G1"),sheet.getCellRange("A16:G16"),true); //Save the document wb.saveToFile("CopyRangeWithinSheet.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013); } } 
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Copy a cell range from one worksheet to another

import com.spire.xls.ExcelVersion; import com.spire.xls.Workbook; import com.spire.xls.Worksheet; public class CopyRow { public static void main(String[] args) { //Create a Workbook instance Workbook wb = new Workbook(); //Load a sample Excel file wb.loadFromFile("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Documents\\input.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013); //Get the first worksheet Worksheet sheet1 = wb.getWorksheets().get(0); //Get the second worksheet Worksheet sheet2 = wb.getWorksheets().get(1); //Copy a cell range from sheet 1 to sheet 2 sheet1.copy(sheet1.getCellRange("A1:G1"),sheet2.getCellRange("A1:G1"),true); //Save the document wb.saveToFile("CopyRangeBetweenSheets.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2013); } } 
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