Hi Steve,
You could record a macro then adapt it to work the way you want.
There are eight borders around cells (inside/outside) so it may
be a bit painful unless you simplify it.

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"SteveW" wrote in message news:op.tekn8jazevjsnp@enigma03...
With Copy/Paste you have Paste Special to control the actual paste
ie just Values,Format etc
Is there a similar method for Format Painter, ie just Paste background
colour or just borders

I'd love to be able easily to just copy the background colour from one
cell to another.
I know I could write macro to do it, but you'd need one for each Format
feature you wanted to copy

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Steve (3)