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MCKELPA99
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Does anyone have any ideas on how to get borders to work in the headings or subheadings of Excel formatted reports? I want to use the basic BORDER styling command to put text and fields in the headings in some type of grid or border.


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Microfich
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This little guy worked wonders....

SET SSDEBUG=256


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MCKELPA99
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Hi Microfich,

I tried the SET SSDEBUG=256 and nothing happened. Also, looked for it in HELP and did not find it there. Please advise a little more.

Thanks


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Microfich
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Supposedly, this non-documented setting would allow bordering for EXL2K even though not officially available until release 7.6.9. I see you are v7.7.0.2 so this might not be available.

For me (v7.6.2) it allowed things like:

 

TYPE=TITLE, BACKCOLOR=AQUA,BORDER=LIGHT,BORDER-COLOR=RGB(211 211 211),STYLE=BOLD,$
TYPE=TITLE,COLUMN=IO_TYP,BACKCOLOR=NONE,BORDER-RIGHT=LIGHT,BORDER-TOP=OFF,$


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MCKELPA99
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So was it only available for the 7.6.9 version? It's not allowing me to do it. Using your example, I want to do something like this:

TYPE=HEADING,LINE=5,ITEM=1,BACKCOLOR=AQUA,BORDER=LIGHT,BORDER-COLOR=RGB(211 211 211),STYLE=BOLD,$

So you can not do this....on a heading line in your report with 7.6.2?


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Tony A
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What version of Excel do you have? As you can achieve what you want with EXL07 format.

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MCKELPA99
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The different users of this report have a couple different versions of Excel. Generally, I really need to generate the Excel report for the 2003 version of Excel to cover all users curently I believe. On my machine, I have Excel 2007 and soon to go to 2010.

I will try the EXL07 with the borders on the heading items and see waht I get.

Thanks.


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MCKELPA99
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I tried the EXL07 format and it still did not border the items in the heading line. For example, I use something like I posted earlier such as:

TYPE=HEADING,LINE=5,ITEM=1,BORDER=LIGHT,JUSTIFY=CENTER,COLSPAN=3

You think it should work with for this?


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Jane Ross
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I'm encountering a similar issue. I have spreadsheets that I styled with solid medium black borders around some of the data columns, column titles and heading. Everything works in Exl2k but not in Exl07. I ended up having to revert back to sending the output to Exl2k which still works for large spreadsheets (> 65k lines) if the person opening it has Exl07 on their PC. If anyone has been able to get this to work in Exl07, please post the code.
 
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Tony A
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Apologies, I was looking at backcolor and not border. Border does not work in EXL07 format (nor has it ever worked in any other Excel format Frowner).

The only other method is to apply the styling that you wish within a macro using Excel templates, although check out some of the tips and technique papers in the IB - Developer Centre which may help you?

T


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MCKELPA99
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How did you get the BORDERS to work in EXL2K?


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J.Hines
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The following is what I'm using to add borders in EXL2K format (in 7.7.03):
type=title,
 border=0.5,
 border-color=rgb(99 99 99),
$


The 0.5 setting is a trick IBI told me about because setting it to "light" isn't "light" in Excel, it's medium-weight, which is more contrast than necessary.

But in any case, the above doesn't work for EXL07. My desk has a head-shaped dent in it.


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