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Create, read, and style Excel workbooks in .NET.

Style workbooks as you write them — fonts, fills, borders, number formats, alignment, and layout — using ExcelStyledWriter. Every example below is a complete, runnable snippet.

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Date and time number formats

Writes DateTime and TimeSpan values with yyyy-mm-dd, hh:mm, and the [h]:mm elapsed-hours format — the last of which keeps durations past 24 hours from wrapping back to zero.

Write.cs
using FormulaEngineer.Api;
using FormulaEngineer.Api.Styling;
using FormulaEngineer.Licensing;

var headerStyle =
		ExcelStyle.Default.With(
				font: ExcelFontStyle.Default.With(
						bold: true,
						color: ExcelColor.FromRgb(255, 255, 255)),
				fill: ExcelFillStyle.Solid(
						ExcelColor.FromRgb(31, 78, 121)));

var dateStyle =
		ExcelStyle.Default.With(
				numberFormat: ExcelNumberFormatStyle.Custom("yyyy-mm-dd"));

var timeStyle =
		ExcelStyle.Default.With(
				numberFormat: ExcelNumberFormatStyle.Custom("hh:mm"));

var durationStyle =
		ExcelStyle.Default.With(
				numberFormat: ExcelNumberFormatStyle.Custom("[h]:mm"));

using (var writer = new ExcelStyledWriter("date-time-formats.xlsx"))
{
	using (var sheet = writer.CreateWorksheet("Schedule"))
	{
		sheet.WriteRow(
				new object?[] { "Task", "Start date", "Start time", "Duration" },
				headerStyle);

		sheet.WriteRow(
				new object?[]
				{
								"Import",
								new DateTime(2026, 7, 22),
								new DateTime(2026, 7, 22, 9, 30, 0),
								TimeSpan.FromHours(2.5)
				},
				new ExcelStyle?[] { null, dateStyle, timeStyle, durationStyle });

		sheet.WriteRow(
				new object?[]
				{
								"Review",
								new DateTime(2026, 7, 23),
								new DateTime(2026, 7, 23, 14, 0, 0),
								TimeSpan.FromHours(1.25)
				},
				new ExcelStyle?[] { null, dateStyle, timeStyle, durationStyle });
	}

	writer.Close();
}

Style your own workbooks

Styling is part of the same package — no separate install, no Excel, no COM automation.