format text from excelsheet with xlswrite in matlab

To format the text in an excelsheet with xlswrite in Matlab, you can use the xlswrite function with the following format:

main.m
xlswrite(filename, data, sheet, range);
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where:

• filename is the name of the file to write to
• data is the data to write to the file
• sheet is the name of the sheet to write to, which can be a string or a numeric index
• range is the cell range to write the data to, which can be a string or a two-element vector of the form [row column]

The text formatting can be done using the xlswrite options:

• Basic : Write data to the cell in a specified format.
• bold, italic, underline, strikethrough : Enhance the appearance of the text in the cell.
• color : Set the font color in the cell.
• bgColor : Set the background color in the cell.
• border : Add a border around the cell and set color of the border.

Here is an example code snippet on how to format the text while writing to excel file:

main.m
filename = 'example.xlsx';
data = {'Name', 'Age'; 'John', 25; 'Alice', 30};
xlRange = 'A1:B3';
boldFormat = [true, true; false, false];
xlswrite(filename, data, 1, xlRange, 'bold', boldFormat);
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This code snippet writes the data to the first sheet of an Excel file named 'example.xlsx' and applies bold formatting to the first row of the data.