Merge pull request #792 from neddy299/fix/autofilter-for-excel

Fix Excel opening files with AutoFilter data

Author: tealeg

xmlWorksheet.go

@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ func emitStructAsXML(v reflect.Value, name, xmlNS string) (xmlwriter.Elem, error
 				Name:  "xmlns",
 				Value: xmlNS,
 			})
-		case "SheetData", "MergeCells", "DataValidations":
+		case "SheetData", "MergeCells", "DataValidations", "AutoFilter":
 			// Skip SheetData here, we explicitly generate this in writeXML below
 			// Microsoft Excel considers a mergeCells element before a sheetData element to be
 			// an error and will fail to open the document, so we'll be back with this data
@@ -773,6 +773,15 @@ func (worksheet *xlsxWorksheet) WriteXML(xw *xmlwriter.Writer, s *Sheet, styles
 					return err
 				}
 			}
+			if worksheet.AutoFilter != nil {
+				autoFilter, err := emitStructAsXML(reflect.ValueOf(worksheet.AutoFilter), "autoFilter", "")
+				if err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
+				if err := xw.Write(autoFilter); err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
+			}
 			return nil
 		}(),
 		xw.EndElem(output.Name),