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How can I remove a cell pattern without affecting the cell color or gridlines?
Here is what happened. I have a spreadsheet that is 100x100 cells. The cells had various colors applied using the Format Cells/Patterns/Cell Shading dialog. I temporarily wanted to flag these cells as DO NOT EDIT by adding a pattern (light dots) using the Format Cells/Patterns/Pattern dialog. I went back to remove the pattern using the same dialog, but the gridlines are no longer visible. I looked in MS Help - they suggest clicking on the Fill tool and selecting NO FILL. When I do this, the gridlines come back, but the cell coloring is now gone. Is there a way to remove the pattern while preserving the grid and original cell coloring? Thanks so much. |
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This will remove the pattern from the selected cells without affecting the cell color or gridlines. The gridlines should still be visible, and the original cell coloring should remain intact.
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Hi,
When you have a fill color on a cell the gridlines are no longer visible. The solution is to add Borders. Choose a light gray dotted border and match it to the gridlines and it will probably look ok. -- Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Filibuster" wrote: How can I remove a cell pattern without affecting the cell color or gridlines? Here is what happened. I have a spreadsheet that is 100x100 cells. The cells had various colors applied using the Format Cells/Patterns/Cell Shading dialog. I temporarily wanted to flag these cells as DO NOT EDIT by adding a pattern (light dots) using the Format Cells/Patterns/Pattern dialog. I went back to remove the pattern using the same dialog, but the gridlines are no longer visible. I looked in MS Help - they suggest clicking on the Fill tool and selecting NO FILL. When I do this, the gridlines come back, but the cell coloring is now gone. Is there a way to remove the pattern while preserving the grid and original cell coloring? Thanks so much. |
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Select the range that you have cells within to fix. Go back to format Cell/patterns/cell shading and select the one that has no pattern. (upper left in xl2k) Ok out and it should have cleared all patterns and everything else should be as it was. Mike Rogers "Filibuster" wrote: How can I remove a cell pattern without affecting the cell color or gridlines? Here is what happened. I have a spreadsheet that is 100x100 cells. The cells had various colors applied using the Format Cells/Patterns/Cell Shading dialog. I temporarily wanted to flag these cells as DO NOT EDIT by adding a pattern (light dots) using the Format Cells/Patterns/Pattern dialog. I went back to remove the pattern using the same dialog, but the gridlines are no longer visible. I looked in MS Help - they suggest clicking on the Fill tool and selecting NO FILL. When I do this, the gridlines come back, but the cell coloring is now gone. Is there a way to remove the pattern while preserving the grid and original cell coloring? Thanks so much. |
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In Excel 2007 if you fill the cell with anything but pattern color, you can
remove the pattern by selecting the pattern style at the top left of the selections and the fill color will remain. However, if you used Pattern color to fill the cell, the patter color will be removed also. I don't think previous versions of Excel had pattern color in the Fill tab in Format Cells. Tyro "Filibuster" wrote in message ... How can I remove a cell pattern without affecting the cell color or gridlines? Here is what happened. I have a spreadsheet that is 100x100 cells. The cells had various colors applied using the Format Cells/Patterns/Cell Shading dialog. I temporarily wanted to flag these cells as DO NOT EDIT by adding a pattern (light dots) using the Format Cells/Patterns/Pattern dialog. I went back to remove the pattern using the same dialog, but the gridlines are no longer visible. I looked in MS Help - they suggest clicking on the Fill tool and selecting NO FILL. When I do this, the gridlines come back, but the cell coloring is now gone. Is there a way to remove the pattern while preserving the grid and original cell coloring? Thanks so much. |
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Hi Tyro,
Earlier versions do have a pattern drop-down on the Patterns tab just like 2007, only difference in 2007 is you can use gradient fills and there are about 16 million colors to choose from instead of 56. -- Thanks, Shane Devenshire "Tyro" wrote: In Excel 2007 if you fill the cell with anything but pattern color, you can remove the pattern by selecting the pattern style at the top left of the selections and the fill color will remain. However, if you used Pattern color to fill the cell, the patter color will be removed also. I don't think previous versions of Excel had pattern color in the Fill tab in Format Cells. Tyro "Filibuster" wrote in message ... How can I remove a cell pattern without affecting the cell color or gridlines? Here is what happened. I have a spreadsheet that is 100x100 cells. The cells had various colors applied using the Format Cells/Patterns/Cell Shading dialog. I temporarily wanted to flag these cells as DO NOT EDIT by adding a pattern (light dots) using the Format Cells/Patterns/Pattern dialog. I went back to remove the pattern using the same dialog, but the gridlines are no longer visible. I looked in MS Help - they suggest clicking on the Fill tool and selecting NO FILL. When I do this, the gridlines come back, but the cell coloring is now gone. Is there a way to remove the pattern while preserving the grid and original cell coloring? Thanks so much. |
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Hi All,
Thanks for the replies - but I am still having problems. I should also mention, the original spreadsheet used borders extensively, and adding lite gray borders to simulate the gridlines will destroy them. To see what I am talking about, try this. Open a blank work sheet. Highlight a square block of cells. Format Cells... Patterns and click a color OK. Then, highlight a larger square area that includes the colored cells. Format Cells... Patterns and click a pattern OK. Now, highlight all the same cells from step 2 and remove the pattern. You'll see the gridlines are no longer visible. I think the problem is that when removing the pattern, I want the checkbox to show greyed out (like it is originally before you select pattern) instead of picking the empty white "pattern". Maybe I can do this through VBA. |
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I played with this a little more. If your selected range (with pattern)
includes cells with color, and cells without color - then your remove the pattern - excel adds white as the cell color for cells that were originally not colored. By adding the white cell color - the gridlines go away. Any ideas how I can keep the colorless cells colorless? Maybe I need to write some code... "Filibuster" wrote: How can I remove a cell pattern without affecting the cell color or gridlines? Here is what happened. I have a spreadsheet that is 100x100 cells. The cells had various colors applied using the Format Cells/Patterns/Cell Shading dialog. I temporarily wanted to flag these cells as DO NOT EDIT by adding a pattern (light dots) using the Format Cells/Patterns/Pattern dialog. I went back to remove the pattern using the same dialog, but the gridlines are no longer visible. I looked in MS Help - they suggest clicking on the Fill tool and selecting NO FILL. When I do this, the gridlines come back, but the cell coloring is now gone. Is there a way to remove the pattern while preserving the grid and original cell coloring? Thanks so much. |
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I use Excel 2007. I selected 4 cells then formatted Pattern Color then
Pattern Style (any but uppermost left style). Then I selected 16 cells including the previous 4 and formatted Pattern Color and Pattern Style (any but uppermost left style). I cannot get a pattern to appear without selecting a pattern style. Then went to Format Cells - Fill and selected Background Color - No color. The pattern colors and styles disappeared and the gridlines remained. I can make the gridlines disappear by selecting the upper left selection in Pattern Styles and bring the gridlines back by selecting Background Color - No color. The uppermost left pattern style hides the gridlines but does not apply a color. tyro "Filibuster" wrote in message ... Hi All, Thanks for the replies - but I am still having problems. I should also mention, the original spreadsheet used borders extensively, and adding lite gray borders to simulate the gridlines will destroy them. To see what I am talking about, try this. Open a blank work sheet. Highlight a square block of cells. Format Cells... Patterns and click a color OK. Then, highlight a larger square area that includes the colored cells. Format Cells... Patterns and click a pattern OK. Now, highlight all the same cells from step 2 and remove the pattern. You'll see the gridlines are no longer visible. I think the problem is that when removing the pattern, I want the checkbox to show greyed out (like it is originally before you select pattern) instead of picking the empty white "pattern". Maybe I can do this through VBA. |
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