i have developed almost application like spread sheets in 2003. but with 2007 / 2010 i cannot perform even the simplest tasks – e.g. copy and paste! if i have relative references i expect paste to have relative references, and similarly absolute to absolute. but excel 2007 / 2010 are creatures of hell, designed to create pure unhappiness. i get frustrated and give up.

the (probably?) good things about 2007 / 2010 is multi threading and millions or rows and cols. but even with multi threading the performance of 2007 and 2010 sucks in comparison to 2003 – i do not understand how microsoft managed to decrease performance by implementing multi threading. my spread sheets are many MB in size, loads of worksheets, with some serious VBA codes and solvers and splines (cubic, 3D) and charts – developed and maintained over many years, and yes they run faster on 2003.

i am writing this comment because people still seem to be appreciating excel in 2011 and i just dont understand their logic.

bottomline, microsoft has ruined a great product called excel 2003.

Try something like:

With ActiveSheet.Range(“J9: J21″)
.Borders (xlDiagonalDown).LineStyle = xlNone
‘ etc.
End With

The code is as follows:
ActiveSheet.Range(“J9:J21″).Select
Selection.Borders(xlDiagonalDown).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlDiagonalUp).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeLeft).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeTop).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeBottom).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeRight).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlInsideVertical).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlInsideHorizontal).LineStyle = xlNone

In the above case – the borders currently exist in the worksheet, and now the code is to remove the existing borders.

Thank you.

I don’t know why your macro won’t simply overwrite any existing border. Without seeing the code or the error message, it’s hard to make a guess.

I have a workbook that based on a condition will automatically add a border to a specified range or remove the border. In cases where the range already had a pre-existing border, then the condition is accepted and the code attempts to create the border, I get an error.

Is there a way to create an if/than or select case statement based on the format of a cell – whether it already has a border or not? Or for the code to be able to overlook the pre-existing format and “re” border the given range any way?

I appreciate any guidance.

Thank you very much for the help. It works really well. I am new to excel. I got the key word of “setting up the data”.

I almost broke my head working with menu for two hours.

Thank you very much.