In the end I took a creative solution and changed the area to B5:AO600. Also
had to remove the line

' .Weight = xlThin

I avoided the dreaded column A. It works now. I do very little in Excel.
Mainly work in Access and while it would be nice to find the answer, it is
not worth my time and money. Thanks again for your help Jay. I learned a
few things and it did set me down a path to create a workaround.

"Jay" wrote:

Hi NevilleT -

Sorry we couldn't solve the problem directly. It sounds like you chose your
updates cleanly and carefully; they weren't anything out of the ordinary and
you wouldn't expect them to lead to the VBA error. Hopefully, the
reconstruction will shed some light on the problem.

I'll switch to monitoring this thread via 'email notification' should you
like to pick up where we left off.

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Jay

"NevilleT" wrote:

Thanks Jay. I know Access 2007 has a few "undocumented features" with pivot
tables so perhaps Excel does too. At this point I may try recreating the
whole thing in Excel 2003.
I was working on a program that a client inherited and which I did some
major mods to a few years back. They needed a few more changes this week
which had little impact on the pivot table other than to extend the range.
The code was working up to the point where I extended the range and converted
to 2007. Maybe I can get it working in 2003. Thanks for all your help.



"Jay" wrote:

Good question Neville. I expected too much of Excel 2007...

At this point, I'd suggest remanufacturing the Pivot Table from scratch and
running your procedure on the new Pivot Table before doing anything else to
it. We'll evaluate your procedure on a 'virgin' pivot table.
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Jay



"NevilleT" wrote:

If I can't get to "Format Cells", how do I tell if the cell is protected.
Sorry but I am not an Excel expert. The worksheet does seem to be
unprotected.

"Jay" wrote:

Hi NevilleT -

I don't use XL2007, but its menus are more context sensitive than prior
versions. So, not seeing a format menu when a cell is selected strongly
suggests that there may be some protection lurking around.

You mentioned earlier that there was no protection, but we need to reconfirm
that that is the case. Can you confirm that the cell is not protected
before we proceed ?

--
Jay

"NevilleT" wrote:

Hi Guys

I am using Excel 2007. I tried to format and when I click Format, Format
Cells, I don't get a menu. When I click somewhere else, I get a menu. I am
not an Excel expert but am reasonably capable with VBA using Access. I am
certainly struggling with this one.

"Leung" wrote:

Hi

Are you sure you didn't protect any cells for changes?

Leung

"NevilleT" wrote:

I posted this message before but didn't resolve it. I have a pivot table I
am trying to format. The sheet is unprotected and the code fails with an
error

"Unable to set the linestyle property of the border class"

It does however work correctly on other worksheets in the same workbook.

Dim rng As Range

Set rng = ActiveSheet.Range("A5:B600")
rng.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
rng.Borders(xlDiagonalDown).LineStyle = xlNone ' Error occurs here
rng.Borders(xlDiagonalUp).LineStyle = xlNone