Reset Excel to default borders

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Ok  so you know what a spreadsheet looks like when you open a new on in Excel  the borders are a light blue  These are only on the screen though  if you print the sheet it will not have borders  Say you ve applied some various formatting to the sheet  background color  etc   and those  default  borders are gone  My question is how to you get them back  Simply doing a Clear Formats will not always work   Specifically I am talking about Excel 2007 but I believe all versions do this   Any ideas   Thanks  Ryan

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Just go to Home gt  Cell Style  gt  Normal khir

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In Excel 2016 for Mac  I clicked the Excel menu  then clicked Preferences     I then clicked the View icon   whereupon I found a Gridlines Checkbox next to a Color Picker   Regardless of whether the Gridlines checkbox os checked or not  if you change the color in the Color Picker dropdown menu  your cell borders will become that color   I believe the change took place after i quit excel and opened the document the next day to continue working on it but I can t accurately remember    Changing the color picker back to Automatic will return your cell borders to the default  black  color on-the-fly   N B  Because I m a newbie I cannot insert the screen shots I prepared ahead of time

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If you re trying to do this from within Excel  rather than programmatically   follow these steps    From the  Orb  menu on the ribbon  click the  Excel Options  button near the bottom of the menu  In the list of choices at the left  select  Advanced   Scroll down until you see the heading  Display options for this worksheet   Select the checkbox labeled  Show guidelines      nbsp  nbsp  nbsp

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I had this issue  grid lines appeared to be missing on some cells   Took me awhile to figure out that the color of those cells were white  I clicked format cell  pattern and then selected  no color   instead of white  The the grid lines were visible again   I hope this helps others as it took me a while to figure out why

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My best answer for this is to simply use format painter  This might be a bit of a pain  but it works rather well as the problem you are facing is that Gridlines are covered by fill and other effects that are layered on top  Imagine putting a piece of white paper on top of your grid  the grid lines are present underneath  but they just don t show    So try    Clicking on a cell in the spreadsheet with the format that you want Under the ribons  go to Home and format painter  it should be a smaller icon near the paste button  Now highlight any cell that you want to apply this format to and it will set the font  color  background etc  to the same as the cell selected  The value will be preserved     From my experience this is the easiest way to do this quickly  Especially when pasting things in and out of excel    Again this is not the programmatic way of solving this problem

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Another way  There is check box Page Layout tab with Gridlines     View which should be checked

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If you have applied border and or fill on a cell  you need to clear both to go back to the default borders   You may apply  None  as the border option and expect the default borders to show  but it will not when the cell fill is white  It s not immediately obvious that it has a white fill  as unfilled cells are also white   In this case  apply a  No Fill  on the cells  and you will get the default borders back     That s it  No messy format painting  no  Clear Formats   none of those destructive methods  Easy  quick and painless

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In case anyone still needs the VBA way of doing this   The properties  assuming you selected something  are   With Selection      interior pattern   xlNone      Borders xl lt side gt   Linestyle   xlNone End Selection   Where  lt side gt  can be for example DiagonalDown or EdgeTop  so  -  Selection Borders xlEdgeTop  Linestyle   xlNone  would reset the Top Edge

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I understand this is an old post  But it is programmable  Otherwise make sure your fill is set to  No Fill  and your boarders are set to  No Boarder  via the user interface shown in the previous posts   Sub clear   Range  A4 G1000   Borders LineStyle   xlNone  Range  A4 G1000   Interior ColorIndex   xlNone  End Sub

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you just need to change the line color and you can apply it without problem

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I was having the same trouble with importing from Excel 2010 to Access  appending an  identical  table   Early on in the wizard it said not all my column names were valid  even though I checked them   It turns out that it saw an  empty  column with no column name   When I tried using the import wizard to create a new table instead  it worked   However  I noticed that it had added a blank column to the right of my data and called it  Field30    So I went back to the spreadsheet I was trying to import  selected the columns to the right of the data that I wanted  right-clicked and chose  clear contents    That did the trick and I was able to import the spreadsheet  appending it to my table

[excel-2007] Reset Excel to default borders

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