Format Paste Special - is there a way to do this ?

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" <[email protected]> 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 doe=
s =

indicate the current colour
- must have missed that ages ago !)

anyway what I'd want with a macro is to check and copy the characteristi=
c =

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 =

<[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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 Form=
at
> feature you wanted to copy
>