Hello.

a) For three HRT's, you can use char(10)&char(10)&char(10).
Is there a way to shortcut this to char(10)*3, or similar?

b) Also, in Excel 2003, is there a way to put a border of asterisks
around a cell without using VBA? Is there a way to make a thick blue
border around a cell?

(On the Format CellsBorder, I can't see a way to increase the
thickness of the borders beyond the few options the presets give
you..)

??

All help appreciated!

VR/

Lost

You should be able to use this...

String(3,10)

where the first argument is how many you want and the second argument is the
ASCII and/or ANSI value; or the second argument could be the character
itself, that is, this would work too...

String(3, Chr(10))

Rick


"Lostguy" wrote in message
...

Hello.

a) For three HRT's, you can use char(10)&char(10)&char(10).
Is there a way to shortcut this to char(10)*3, or similar?

b) Also, in Excel 2003, is there a way to put a border of asterisks
around a cell without using VBA? Is there a way to make a thick blue
border around a cell?

(On the Format CellsBorder, I can't see a way to increase the
thickness of the borders beyond the few options the presets give
you..)

??

All help appreciated!

VR/

Lost

By the way, VB has a pre-defined constant for Chr(10) which is vbLf (where
Lf stands for Line Feed, which is what you are calling HRT). So, you could
do these also...

vbLf & vbLf & vbLf

or

String(3, vbLf)

as well as what I posted earlier.

Rick


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote in
message ...
You should be able to use this...

String(3,10)

where the first argument is how many you want and the second argument is
the ASCII and/or ANSI value; or the second argument could be the character
itself, that is, this would work too...

String(3, Chr(10))

Rick


"Lostguy" wrote in message
...

Hello.

a) For three HRT's, you can use char(10)&char(10)&char(10).
Is there a way to shortcut this to char(10)*3, or similar?

b) Also, in Excel 2003, is there a way to put a border of asterisks
around a cell without using VBA? Is there a way to make a thick blue
border around a cell?

(On the Format CellsBorder, I can't see a way to increase the
thickness of the borders beyond the few options the presets give
you..)

??

All help appreciated!

VR/

Lost

For the b) question.

Asterisks?.........none that I know of.

For a thicker bule line, use the drawing toolbar to draw a rectangle over the
cell.

Format to transparent then set a blue line weight of your choice.

4 or 5 pts gives a thick line.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:36:02 -0700 (PDT), Lostguy wrote:


Hello.

a) For three HRT's, you can use char(10)&char(10)&char(10).
Is there a way to shortcut this to char(10)*3, or similar?

b) Also, in Excel 2003, is there a way to put a border of asterisks
around a cell without using VBA? Is there a way to make a thick blue
border around a cell?

(On the Format CellsBorder, I can't see a way to increase the
thickness of the borders beyond the few options the presets give
you..)

??

All help appreciated!

VR/

Lost

All,

Thanks!

Rick: I tried ="a"&String(2, vbLf)&"b", ="a"&String(2, CHAR(10))&"b",
and ="a"&String(2, 10)&"b" and all produce the #name? error.

??

Gord: Perfect! Your idea chopped 1-3K off of my file sizes! (which is
what I was trying to do). I had been using rows and columns of cells
that were blue-colored to make a frame. With your method, I was able
to delete those. Thanks!

VR/

John

= Rick: I tried ="a"&String(2, vbLf)&"b", ="a"&String(2, CHAR(10))&"b",
and ="a"&String(2, 10)&"b" and all produce the #name? error.

I have to apologize to you... because you posted in the programming
newsgroup, I assumed you were looking for a VB solution (developing
worksheet formulas are not really considered "programming"); however, I
should have realized that you wanted a formula response by your use of the
CHAR function... problem is, that spelling is very close to VB equivalent
function Chr... again, because you posted in a programming group, my mind
simply saw Chr and not CHAR. Anyway, there is a similar solution at the
worksheet formula level in the REPT function. For example, try this...

="A"&REPT(CHAR(10),3)&"B"

but make sure you format your cell(s) for word wrap or you won't see the
result.

Rick