This short tutorial guides on how to show formulas in Excel using Node.js. It has the IDE settings, a list of steps, and a runnable sample code to display formulas in Excel using Node.js. You will also learn different options to calculate formulas in a workbook without using any third-party tool or software.

Steps to Display Cell Formulas using Node.js

1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.Cells for Node.js via Java to display formulas
2. Create a workbook, access a sheet, and set sample values in a few cells
3. Set a formula also in a cell using the above values
4. Calculate the formula to display the result value in the cell
5. Set the flag to show formulas instead of values and save the workbook

These steps summarize the process of how to display formulas in Excel using Node.js. The process is instantiated by setting values and a formula in a sheet followed by calculating the formula to generate the result in the formula cell. In the final step, the setShowFormulas() method is called by providing the value ’true’ to display the formulas in the sheet instead of values.

Code to Show Formulas in Excel using Node.js

This code sample demonstrates the feature to display cell formulas in Excel using Node.js. You may use the setShowFormulas() method to show or hide formulas in the target sheet by setting the flag to true or false respectively. Similarly, you may use getShowFormulas() method to check the formula display status without opening the workbook in Excel or any other third-party tool.

This brief tutorial has described how to show all formulas in Excel using node.js. If you want to learn the process to remove formulas but keep values, refer to the article on how to delete a column in Excel using Node.js.