This article guides on tracing precedents and dependents in Excel using Java. It has the details to set the development environment, a list of steps for developing the application, and a sample code to track dependents and precedent in Excel using Java. It will guide you to explore the dependents and precedents collection and fetch the desired information.

Steps to Track Excel Cell Reference using Java

1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.Cells for Java to track precedents and dependents
2. Create a new Excel file using the Workbook class and set sample data and formulas in different cells
3. Access the collection of dependent cell precedents
4. Iterate through all the precedent cell areas and display sheet name, start row/column, and end row/column
5. Get the collection of cells that are dependent on a cell and display their information

These steps describe how to trace dependents and precedents in Excel using Java. Commence the process by creating or loading an Excel file, accessing the cells collection from the desired sheet, and setting some sample data and formulas referring to other cells in the same or different sheet. Access the precedents collection of some dependent cells and dependent cells collection for a particular precedent cell and display the reference information.

Code to Identify Excel Formula Reference using Java

This sample code demonstrates how to find Excel dependent cells using Java and the precedents. A dependent cell contains the reference cell areas that you require to calculate the value of the current dependent cell. Similarly, a precedent cell has a collection of cells that are dependent on it.

This article has guided us to track the precedents and dependents in an Excel file. To remove formulas from an Excel file, refer to the article on How to remove formula but keep data in Excel in Java.