Pandas dataframe to specific sheet in a excel file without losing formatting

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I have a dataframe like as shown below

Date,cust,region,Abr,Number,         
12/01/2010,Company_Name,Somecity,Chi,36,
12/02/2010,Company_Name,Someothercity,Nyc,156,

df = pd.read_clipboard(sep=',')

I would like to write this dataframe to a specific sheet (called temp_data) in the file output.xlsx

Therfore I tried the below

import pandas
from openpyxl import load_workbook

book = load_workbook('output.xlsx')
writer = pandas.ExcelWriter('output.xlsx', engine='openpyxl') 
writer.book = book
writer.sheets = dict((ws.title, ws) for ws in book.worksheets)

I also tried the below

path = 'output.xlsx'

with pd.ExcelWriter(path) as writer:
    writer.book = openpyxl.load_workbook(path)
    final_df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name='temp_data',startrow=10)
writer.save()

But am not sure whether I am overcomplicating it. I get an error like as shown below. But I verifiedd in task manager, no excel file/task is running

BadZipFile: File is not a zip file

Moreover, I also lose my formatting of the output.xlsx file when I manage to write the file based on below suggestions. I already have a neatly formatted font,color file etc and just need to put the data inside.

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Is there anyway to write the pandas dataframe to a specific sheet in an existing excel file? WITHOUT LOSING FORMATTING OF THE DESTIATION FILE

4 Answers

You need to just use to_excel from pandas dataframe.

Try below snippet:

df1.to_excel("output.xlsx",sheet_name='Sheet_name')

If there is existing data please try below snippet:

writer = pd.ExcelWriter('output.xlsx', engine='openpyxl')
# try to open an existing workbook
writer.book = load_workbook('output.xlsx')
df.to_excel(writer,index=False,header=False,startrow=len(reader)+1)
writer.save()
writer.close()

Are you restricted to using pandas or openpyxl? Because if you're comfortable using other libraries, the easiest way is probably using win32com to puppet excel as if you were a user manually copying and pasting the information over.

import pandas as pd
import io
import win32com.client as win32
import os

csv_text = """Date,cust,region,Abr,Number      
12/01/2010,Company_Name,Somecity,Chi,36
12/02/2010,Company_Name,Someothercity,Nyc,156"""



df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(csv_text),sep = ',')
temp_path = r"C:\Users\[User]\Desktop\temp.xlsx" #temporary location where to write this dataframe
df.to_excel(temp_path,index = False) #temporarily write this file to excel, change the output path as needed

excel = win32.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
excel.Visible = True #Switch these attributes to False if you'd prefer Excel to be invisible while excecuting this script
excel.ScreenUpdating = True 


temp_wb = excel.Workbooks.Open(temp_path)
temp_ws = temp_wb.Sheets("Sheet1")

output_path = r"C:\Users\[User]\Desktop\output.xlsx" #Path to your output excel file
output_wb = excel.Workbooks.Open(output_path)
output_ws = output_wb.Sheets("Output_sheet")

temp_ws.Range('A1').CurrentRegion.Copy(Destination = output_ws.Range('A1')) # Feel free to modify the Cell where you'd like the data to be copied to
input('Check that output looks like you expected\n') # Added pause here to make sure script doesn't overwrite your file before you've looked at the output

temp_wb.Close()
output_wb.Close(True) #Close output workbook and save changes
excel.Quit() #Close excel
os.remove(temp_path) #Delete temporary excel file

Let me know if this achieves what you were after.

I spent all day on this (and a co-worker of mine spent even longer). Thankfully, it seems to work for my purposes - pasting a dataframe into an Excel sheet without changing any of the Excel source formatting. It requires the pywin32 package, which "drives" Excel as if it a user, using VBA.

import pandas as pd
from win32com import client

# Grab your source data any way you please - I'm defining it manually here:
df = pd.DataFrame([
['LOOK','','','','','','','',''],
['','MA!','','','','','','',''],
['','','I pasted','','','','','',''],
['','','','into','','','','',''],
['','','','','Excel','','','',''],
['','','','','','without','','',''],
['','','','','','','breaking','',''],
['','','','','','','','all the',''],
['','','','','','','','','FORMATTING!']
])

# Copy the df to clipboard, so we can later paste it as text.
df.to_clipboard(index=False, header=False) 

excel_app = client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application") # Initialize instance

wb = excel_app.Workbooks.Open("Template.xlsx") # Load your (formatted) template workbook
ws = wb.Worksheets(1) # First worksheet becomes active - you could also refer to a sheet by name
ws.Range("A3").Select() # Only select a single cell using Excel nomenclature, otherwise this breaks
ws.PasteSpecial(Format='Unicode Text') # Paste as text
wb.SaveAs("Updated Template.xlsx") # Save our work
excel_app.Quit() # End the Excel instance

In general, when using the win32com approach, it's helpful to record yourself (with a macro) doing what you want to accomplish in Excel, then reading the generated macro code. Often this will give you excellent clues as to what commands you could invoke.

The solution to your problem exists here: How to save a new sheet in an existing excel file, using Pandas?

To add a new sheet from a df:

import pandas as pd
from openpyxl import load_workbook
import os
import numpy as np

os.chdir(r'C:\workdir')

path = 'output.xlsx'
book = load_workbook(path)
writer = pd.ExcelWriter(path, engine = 'openpyxl')
writer.book = book
### replace with your df ###
x = np.random.randn(100, 2)
df = pd.DataFrame(x)


df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name = 'x')
writer.save()
writer.close()
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