I understand the use of ranges (I think). The problem is that you don't get fully formed boxes when you use a range. The only way I could get it to work was loop through each cell succesively setting the form for all four sides.
The command .Borders(xlHorizontalInside).LineStyle = xlContinuous and
.Borders(xlHorizontalInside).LineStyle = xlContinuous both gave me an error when used with the range. Without them, you just get 2 vertical lines....not horizontal. If you set a range like your suggesting, you get a border around the entire range, not around each cell.
>>to do this.
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>>WITH .Parent.Styles("Cell")
>> .Borders(xlEdgeTop).LineStyle = xlContinuous
>> .Borders(xlEdgeLeft).LineStyle = xlContinuous
>> .Borders(xlEdgeRight).LineStyle = xlContinuous
>> .Borders(xlEdgeBottom).LineStyle = xlContinuous
>> ENDWITH
>>
>> **-- set all cells with borders
>> FOR lnI = 1 TO .usedRange.columns.count
>> FOR lnJ = 1 TO .UsedRange.rows.count lcRange = [.Range("] + CHR(lnI + 64) + ALLTRIM(STR(lnj)) + [").Style = "Cell"]
>> &lcRange
>> ENDFOR
>> ENDFOR
>>>
>Try to select a range, and format it all at once. Do this with a macro, and look at the recorded commands.
>
>Example of range manipulation (sets FontSize for a range):
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>
>with oSheet
>.Range(.Cells(1,1), .Cells(5,5)).Font.Size = 20
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>The code may be simpler or more complicated, but it is to your advantage to manipulate entire ranges: there are much less messages to be exchanged between VFP and Excel.
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>HTH, Hilmar.
