Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-Styler DESCRIPTION This is a small utility to help formatting cells while creating Excel workbooks through the wonderful L module. When working within the Excel application, users often change one format feature at a time (highlight a row, add a border to a column, etc.); these changes do not affect other format features (for example if you change the background color, it does not affect fonts, borders, or cell alignment). By contrast, when generating a workbook through L, formats express complete sets of features, and they cannot be combined together. This means that the programmer has to prepare in advance all formats for all possible combinations of format features, and has to invent a way of cataloguing those combinations. Objects from this module hold a catalogue of I, where each style is a collection of format features. Then, for any combination of styles, the styler generats a L on the fly, or, if a similar combination was already encountered, retrieves the format from its internal cache. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL perl Build perl Build test perl Build install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Styler You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-Styler AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-Styler CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-Styler Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-Styler/ LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2010 Laurent Dami This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.