How to change format of a column of excel sheet in c#?

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I am creating an excel sheet dynamically and inserting values in to the same.But value in some cells are getting inserted in the wrong format. Following is my excel sheet enter image description here value in the selected cell should have been 0002-9343 but it is inserted as Feb-43.This due to some wrong format for that column(column-D) in the excel sheet. I need to change the whole column-D (all cells comming under heading D "data2") to 'Text Format' before entering the data. Following is the code for creating the excel sheet and inserting data 

excel = new Application();
            excel.Visible = false;
            wb = (_Workbook)(excel.Workbooks.Add(System.Reflection.Missing.Value));
            sheet = wb.Sheets.Add();
            sheet.Name = "TestSheet1";
            sheet.Cells[1, "A"].Value2 = "Id";
            sheet.Cells[1, "B"].Value2 = "Name";
            sheet.Cells[1, "C"].Value2 = "Data1";
            sheet.Cells[1, "D"].Value2 = "Data2";
            sheet.Cells[1, "E"].Value2 = "Data3";

            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
            {
                    id = i;
                    result = object;
                    data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result);

        name  = (data != null) ? data.name : string.Empty;
                    data1 = (data != null) ? data.data1 : string.Empty;
                    data2 = (data != null) ? data.data2 : string.Empty;
                    data3 = (data != null) ? data.data3 : string.Empty;

                    sheet.Cells[i + 2, "A"].Value2 = name;  
                    sheet.Cells[i + 2, "B"].Value2 = data1; 
                    sheet.Cells[i + 2, "C"].Value2 = data2; 
                    sheet.Cells[i + 2, "D"].Value2 = data3;
            }
            string ExcelPath = Some_path;
            wb.SaveAsExcelPath,XlFileFormat.xlWorkbookNormal, null, null, false, false, XlSaveAsAccessMode.xlShared, false, false, null, null, null);
            wb.Close(true);
            excel.Quit();

Now ,before the loop I need to change the format of cells under Column-D to Text Format. How to do the same from code in c#?

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3 Answers

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Now ,before the loop I need to change the format of cells under Column-D to Text Format. How to do the same from code in c#?

To change the format of the entire column use this

// 4 is for Col D
sheet.Cells[1, 4].EntireColumn.NumberFormat = "@";

Remember to format Col D before you attempt writing to it. Using .EntireColumn will ensure that you will not have to change the format of the Excel Cells individually :)

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This is not the answer to your question, but I would recommend that you use the Open XML Api instead of using excel via Interop. There you can define the datatype for any cell you add to your spreadsheet.

Cell c = new Cell();
c.DataType = CellValues.InlineString;
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Have you tried using NumberFormat?

sheet.Cells[i + 2, "D"].NumberFormat = "@";    
sheet.Cells[i + 2, "A"].Value2 = name;  
sheet.Cells[i + 2, "B"].Value2 = data1; 
sheet.Cells[i + 2, "C"].Value2 = data2; 
sheet.Cells[i + 2, "D"].Value2 = data3;

Would recommend looking at easier libraries in the future. Interop approach is fully valid, but sometimes harder to get working like you want.