Read and write any cell values...

• Numeric, string, boolean and error cells. But what about date and time cells? There are no such cells in Excel. Excel store date and time values in the same way as Delphi, i.e. as floating point numbers. What make's it a date or time value, is the formatting.
• Full support for formulas. You can use the same functions as in Excel. Formulas with referrences to external workbooks are supported as well. You can even read the result from an external referrense.
• Cells are accessed in the same way as the TStringGrid that comes with Delphi, or by giving the cell as a string, like: 'D7'.
• Read cell values as a string formatted according to the rules of the cell.

Format the cells as you want...

• Formatting is easy. By adressing the cell, you can access the formatting properties for it. Example: XLSReadWriteII.Sheet[n].Cell[Col,Row].FontSize := 12;
• You can also format cell areas, and for example, set a border around it.
• Support for all Excel formatting options.
• Use merged cells.

XLSReadWriteII has full support for unicode.
As all strings are WideString, you will not have any problems with non-english characters.

Control objects.
You can insert controls and define their source and destination cells

Drawing objects.
Insert all kinds of drawing objects, from simple lines to AutoShapes.

Cell notes and text boxes.
Create and edit text boxes and cell notes as you want.

Charts.
Create charts with the same options as in Excel.

Copy/Move/Delete

• Cells can be copied, moved and deleted with the same behaviour as in Excel.
• Rows and columns can be copied and moved as well.
• Copy/move between sheets are supported.
• Entire sheets can be copied.

Use named areas/cells.

• Names can be used where you want.
• Access cells through their name is easy. Example:
• XLS.NameAsFloat['MyCell'] := 202.5;
• Support for special, built in names.

All types of hyperlinks are supported.

• Web and e-mail address.
• Local files.
• Server files.
• Worksheet referrences.

Encrypted documents.
You can read and write encrypted files. This assumes of course that you know the password for the file you reads.

Calculation.

• Cells and whole worksheets can be calculated
• The calculation engine will calculate dependent cells, if there are any.
• Referrences to external workbooks will be read. This is performed with a special fast seek routine.

Rich Text cells.
In order to easy create cells with multiple font formatting, the cells can be read and written in the Rich Text (RTF) format.

VBA Macros.
Macros in files can be read and written Macros that are created with XLSReadWriteII can be assigned can be assigned to control objects such as buttons, combo boxes etc.

Import and export.
 Import data from...

• Open Office Calc documents.
• CSV and other text files with automatic detection of characters for field separator, decimal separator and text quote character.
• HTML tables (<TABLE> tag).
• Databases. 

 Export data to...

• CSV text files.
• HTML files.

And more...

• Autofilters.
• Cell validations.
• Conditional formats.
• Merged cells.
• PaintCell method for rendering the cell contents to a TCanvas object.

The XLSReadWriteII package also includes components for:

• Importing any database into a worksheet.
• Exporting worksheets to HTML files.