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)

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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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"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

--
Steve (3)

ta.

The thing I'd most like to do is copy the background colour - so I think
I'll write that one.
It's just annoying that when you click on a cell, and then use the Fill
Button it doesn't show you the current colour. :(
....
:) It does.
(I always actually check what I'm about to post and lo and behold it does
indicate the current colour
- must have missed that ages ago !)

anyway what I'd want with a macro is to check and copy the characteristic
from the paste buffer and apply to the selected range.
Can I access the paste buffer like that ?

Steve


On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:59:09 +0100, David McRitchie
wrote:

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.

---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"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