Apache POI Word - Tables

In this chapter, you will learn how to create a table of data in a document. You can create a table data by using XWPFTable class. By adding each Row to table and adding each cell to Row, you will get table data.

Create a Table

First of all, let us create a Table using the referenced classes discussed in the earlier chapters. By following the previous chapter, create a Document first, and then we can create a table.

The following code snippet is used to create and populate a table −

//Create Blank document
XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument();

//create table
XWPFTable table = document.createTable();
		
//create first row
XWPFTableRow tableRowOne = table.getRow(0);

//set data in column one
tableRowOne.getCell(0).setText("col one, row one");

Example - Create Table in a Document

The following code is used to creating table in a document −

ApachePoiDocDemo.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFTable;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFTableRow;

public class ApachePoiDocDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {

      //Blank Document
      XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument();
        
      //Write the Document in file system
      FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File("example.docx"));
        
      //create table
      XWPFTable table = document.createTable();
		
      //create first row
      XWPFTableRow tableRowOne = table.getRow(0);
      tableRowOne.getCell(0).setText("col one, row one");
      tableRowOne.addNewTableCell().setText("col two, row one");
      tableRowOne.addNewTableCell().setText("col three, row one");
		
      //create second row
      XWPFTableRow tableRowTwo = table.createRow();
      tableRowTwo.getCell(0).setText("col one, row two");
      tableRowTwo.getCell(1).setText("col two, row two");
      tableRowTwo.getCell(2).setText("col three, row two");
		
      //create third row
      XWPFTableRow tableRowThree = table.createRow();
      tableRowThree.getCell(0).setText("col one, row three");
      tableRowThree.getCell(1).setText("col two, row three");
      tableRowThree.getCell(2).setText("col three, row three");
	
      document.write(out);
      out.close();
      document.close();
      System.out.println("example.docx written successully");
   }
}

Output

It generates a Word file named example.docx in your current directory and display the following output on the command prompt −

example.docx written successfully

The example.docx file looks as follows −