This brief tutorial guides on how to add a slicer in Excel using Java. It shares the necessary information to establish the environment, detailed steps to develop the application, and a runnable sample code to add slicer in Excel using Java while saving the resultant file as an XLSX file, however, you may save it in other formats also like XLS, ODS, etc. Additional information for adding the slicer to different types of objects is also available in this article.

Steps to Insert a Slicer in Excel using Java

1. Set the environment to use Aspose.Cells for Java for adding the slicer
2. Instantiate the Workbook object with the source Excel file having a table in it
3. Get a reference to the target table in the desired worksheet
4. Add a new slicer to the slicers collection in the worksheet for the desired table
5. Save the resultant workbook with a table slicer on the disk

The above steps summarize how to add slicers in Excel using Java by sharing the necessary details like configuration detail, program sequence, important classes, methods, and properties required to add a slicer and finally save the output file. The process is simple where first the workbook is loaded and the target table is selected from the desired sheet. In the next step, the slicer is added to the collection of slicers available in the worksheet by default.

Code to Add a Slicer in Excel using Java

This sample code demonstrates the process to insert slicers in Excel using Java. It uses the add() method from the slicers collection class to add the slicer for a table. If you want to add the slicer for a Pivot table, you may use other overloads of this method that allows adding a slicer by providing the target pivot table, slicer destination cell, and the target pivot fields.

This sharp tutorial has guided us to insert a slicer using Java. If you want to learn applying a filter in Excel, refer to the article on how to apply filter in Excel using Java.