Bold the words in excel..

Question

Hello Guys..I have been here before with my questions and everyone helped me to get the solution.. !!
hope you can help me out this time too..thanks !!
I am exporting table data to an excel.. through pl/sql procedure ..using utl_file package. Now I have to bold the first row of that excel (column names).
Thanks !!

Answer 1

A nice »trick« is also to generate simple HTML and store it with a XLS extension. Excel will open it according to the formats given in the html table.
An example to follow:
declare
   bl          boolean;
   param_val   owa.vc_arr;
   thepage     htp.htbuf_arr;
   irows       integer := 999999;
   cl          clob;
begin
   param_val (1) := 1;
   htp.adddefaulthtmlhdr (false);
   owa.init_cgi_env (param_val);
   bl :=
      owa_util.tableprint (ctable         => 'emp',
                           cattributes    => null,
                           ntable_type    => owa_util.html_table,
                           ccolumns       => '*',
                           cclauses       => null,
                           ccol_aliases   => null,
                           nrow_min       => 0,
                           nrow_max       => 500);
   htp.get_page (thepage, irows);
   for i in 1 .. thepage.count
   loop
      cl := cl || thepage (i);
   end loop;
   dbms_xslprocessor.clob2file (cl, 'TEMP', 'emp.xls');
end;
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