Working with cell formats in Excel

Presenting information in spreadsheets is not just a matter of organizing it into cells or displaying it graphically in charts. It also involves changing the format to highlight the important details. In this recipe, we'll see how to manipulate the format of cells to enhance the results and present the data in the best way.

Getting ready

We will use the openpyxl module. We should install the module, adding it to our requirements.txt file as follows:

$ echo "openpyxl==3.0.3" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

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How to do it...

1. Import the openpyxl module and create a new Excel file:

   >>> import openpyxl
   >>> from openpyxl.styles import Font, PatternFill, Border, Side
   >>> xlsfile...