I am using google sheets and Zapier to feed in new email data into a row.
Each row is colour coded depending on status and my problem is this......
Question:
When a new row is imported via Zapier, it automatically gets the background and text color from the previous row. This is really causing me problems, I need new lines to be normal (e.g. white background and black text).
Can anyone offer a solution please?
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I have been searching off and on, high and low, for many months, to no avail, for VBA code that I can include in my macros to highlight text using the current default highlight color. I have looked through my personal resource books and all up and down the land of Google, including here.
I have a bazillion macros created that highlight text every which way to Sunday, in every possible (basic) color, and they all work great. But sometimes I have a scenario where I want to highlight random text in an ongoing manner, multiple times, in a particular color. Then I'll want to switch colors ... for a while. And switch again ... for a while.
I have keyboard shortcuts (many) for a lot of highlighting options, including the built-in command shortcut to highlight text that I have selected manually. So, for example, I can manually select three words to my left, and use Ctrl+Alt+H to invoke the built-in Highlight command, and it will use the current default color.
But I'm unable to automate that further with a macro. For example, I have used numerous different iterations of macros to highlight text as I'm typing it, or to automatically highlight X number of words to my left, or a line or sentence or paragraph. But with each of those macros, I'm forced to declare a specific color. That means that I then have to have voluminous series of macros to be able to do the same thing with each (basic) color variation. That's fine if I just want to infrequently highlight text in a specific color. But when I know I will be using a specific color for the next, say, 20 or 40 highlights, I'd love to set a default color and then just use a generic highlight command rather than a color-centric command (which is more steps).
After much experimentation, I've finally figured out a way to do it. I'm not sure if this is the most efficient way, but it works!
I have many highlight-centric macros that will use this feature, but here is an example of one of them using this feature. I declared the existing color as a string and then used the string rather than a specific color (which I erroneously thought was a requirement). The following macro allows me to highlight while I'm typing:
Sub honHighlightOnTypingSelectWord_DEFAULTCOLOR()
CurColor = Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex
Application.ActiveDocument.Application.Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = CurColor
Selection.Words(1).Select
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = CurColor
End Sub
Problem solved!
A client is asking me what I think should be done with .NET Windows Forms or similar, but maybe it's possible to do in Excel:
I already added some buttons and actions in a data sheet, but instead of showing all cells as shown by default by Excel, he wants the sheet to be inside an scrollable area. Something like this:
Is this possible? In case it's not clear enough, the scrollbars are just around the data rows and columns, not about the buttons and form items around the actual data
EIDT: I'll try to be more clear, I need all my Excel sheet and workspace to look like a Windows forms application, and the actual data (all the Excel cells) to be inside an scrollable area. I think it's not easy to understand because it's quite weird, as I sayed is my client who wants this.
BTW it wasn't a trial version, I payed for the wireframe software
You could put the buttons in the top row(s) and use the Freeze Pane option
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/freeze-or-lock-rows-and-columns-3439cfe6-010c-4d2d-a3c9-d0e8ba62d724?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
I'm beyond the limits of my kindergarten-level VBA skills so would like to ask if anyone here can help me write a VBA script to help me work stepwise through my Word document and adjust the anchoring position of all the AutoShapes in the document.
I have a 400-page book in Microsoft Word with at least one and sometimes several marginalia (sidenote) on each page in a thin column to the left of the main body text column. These sidenotes are a concise 'pointer' to a particular point made in the body text and need to appear directly to that point's left.
Each sidenote is in its own AutoShape (within a textbox in that shape). The AutoShapes were placed by the author in an inconsistent way. Mostly they are anchored to a position on the page.
However, I need to repaginate. This will cause the body text to flow differently and I need the sidenotes to flow with it (approximately or exactly)!
So before I repaginate I want to make sure I anchor each AutoShape to the paragraph it belongs to and not to the page it is currently on.
I don't know if that can be done automatically, since I don't know how Word could deduce a purely spatial relationship between an AutoShape and a paragraph.
So I'm guessing I have to make do with a "semi-automatic" process. Something like this:
Press a button to start VBA script
Select next AutoShape
Prompt for user to enter cursor in body text where anchor is to be placed
Resume macro
Place anchor for that AutoShape in that position
Change vertical position paramater of AutoShape to "relative to paragraph"
and "0 mm"
(Alternative, not 0 mm but another value deduced to more
accurately position AutoShape)
Change width parameter of AutoShape to
a particular fixed value 37 mm (some of them were a little
inaccurately drawn)
End cycle and go back to beginning to
Select next AutoShape
Hope that is all understandable.
I've tried to record a VBA script to do some of this but have no idea how to build in the user prompt.
Any help much appreciated!
Craig
You may be better off creating a macro that works on one shape at a time, or anchor all the shapes manually (which you're almost doing anyway) and then write a macro to take care of the various parameters and settings you want.
If you really want to prompt the user while the macro is running you'll need to look into modeless dialogs (not possible on the Mac). See this link: http://www.bettersolutions.com/vba/VXV113/SE846743531.htm
Basically, you'd have to create your own dialog and then show it modelessly so that the user could still place the cursor before hitting OK. If you're new to VBA, this could be difficult to set up.
While searching for solutions to this, I found a post on another forum from someone trying to do something very similar. He was developing a set of tools for editors using Word and until I find the ultimate solution I am using his "Shapes" tool which allows me to change parameters on each AutoShape I select at-a-click instead of opening up and closing a dialogue box each time, plus selecting a different tab each time... His tools can be downloaded at his Editors' Toolkit website.
Friends,
I'm using VBA to create Lotus emails populated from an Excel spreadsheet, and I'm stuck on a really silly point.
When I create a new section in the note, business rules require me to give it a border. They've been doing this manually for years and are used to doing this from the Notes UI. They create a new section, then go to its properties and then change it to have a border (please see the border and style part in the properties window in this screenshot).
I can't figure out how to add this border through VBA. Any ideas? I've tried changing the TitleStyle, but that only affects things like fonts and color. I have everything else done, just stuck on the border!
Thanks!
Mike
The NotesRichTextSection class doesn't give you any way to change the border, unfortunately. Rich text items in Lotus Notes aren't supported very well via the API, so often you'll find a mismatch between what you can do on the client vs. what you can do in code.
There might be a workaround if you're up for trying it. First you need to create a simple form in Notes that has a rich text field, let's call it Body, surrounded by a section. Setup the section to appear however you want, with the border set, etc. You'll also need another hidden text field, called Title, and you'll set the section's title to be computed based on that Title field.
Then in your VBA code you're going to create a new NotesDocument based on that form. You'll set the Title field, and you'll add content into the Body rich-text item. Then you'll need to call the ComputeWithForm method followed by the Save method. Finally, you can use the RenderToRTItem method on the document to put the entire document into your original note's rich text field. Make sense?
No guarantees that will work from VBA, but I've done similar things in the past using LotusScript and it did the trick.
You could just set the borders of the cells you are copying using the Borders() property.
Example:
Range("B2:C4").Borders.LineStyle = xlDash
Range("B2:C4").Borders(xlEdgeBottom) = RGB(255,0,0)
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
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.
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.
Just go to Home> Cell Style > Normal
khir
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".
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.
Another way, There is check box Page Layout tab with Gridlines [ ] View which should be checked.
you just need to change the line color and you can apply it without problem
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.
In Excel 2016 for Mac, I clicked the Excel menu, then clicked Preferencesā¦
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. š
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()
Select the cells that you need to affect the style and go to Home then click cell style and select Normal as show in the below snapshot