Can't Set Fill Color Apache POI Excel Workbook

Question

I have scanned this forum over and over and tried every method mentioned on here and still can\'t get Apache POI to change to fill background color of my excel document.

Answer 1

Use foreground color instead of Background color.

 errorOccured = true;
 XSSFCellStyle style = workbook.createCellStyle();
 style.setFillForegroundColor(IndexedColors.RED.getIndex());
 style.setFillPattern(FillPatternType.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
 row.getCell(0).setCellStyle(style);

this will fill the cell background color with RED.