How to ignore the green error marker in worksheets?

25 May 20232 minutes to read

When there exists data that are of different formats, the error marker appears in cells. In XlsIO You can ignore this by using IgnoreErrorOptions property. The following code snippet illustrate this.

using (ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine())
{
  IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;
  FileStream inputStream = new FileStream("Sample.xlsx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
  IWorkbook workbook = application.Workbooks.Open(inputStream, ExcelOpenType.Automatic);
  IWorksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];

  //Ignore Error Options
  worksheet.Range["B3"].IgnoreErrorOptions = ExcelIgnoreError.All;

  FileStream stream = new FileStream("IgnoreGreenError.xlsx", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
  workbook.SaveAs(stream);
  workbook.Close();
  excelEngine.Dispose();
}
using (ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine())
{
  IApplication application = excelEngine.Excel;
  application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Excel2013;
  IWorkbook workbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Sample.xlsx", ExcelOpenType.Automatic);
  IWorksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];

  //Ignore Error Options
  worksheet.Range["B3"].IgnoreErrorOptions = ExcelIgnoreError.All;

  workbook.SaveAs("IgnoreGreenError.xlsx");
}
Using excelEngine As ExcelEngine = New ExcelEngine()
  Dim application As IApplication = excelEngine.Excel
  application.DefaultVersion = ExcelVersion.Excel2013
  Dim workbook As IWorkbook = application.Workbooks.Open("Sample.xlsx", ExcelOpenType.Automatic)
  Dim worksheet As IWorksheet = workbook.Worksheets(0)

  'Ignore Error Options
  worksheet.Range("B3").IgnoreErrorOptions = ExcelIgnoreError.All

  workbook.SaveAs("IgnoreGreenError.xlsx")
End Using

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