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spickles
spickles

Reputation: 645

Excel Interop - Draw All Borders in a Range

I see from Microsoft's documentation that I can access the particular border edges of a cell using the 'xlBordersIndex' property and for example set the border style for the left edge of a cell:

range.Borders[Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeLeft].LineStyle =     Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;

But what if I just want to draw all borders? I have tried

range.BorderAround2();

but that just draws a box around the range itself, which I understand. So then I tried

range.Cells.BorderAround2();

thinking that it would go through each of the cells within the range and place all borders around each cell. This is not what occurred. So in order to get all borders around all cells in a range, must I manually access each of the four border indices?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 54850

Answers (8)

Zirkevin
Zirkevin

Reputation: 11

Excel.Range tRange = xlWorkSheet.UsedRange;
tRange.Borders.LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
tRange.Borders.Weight = Excel.XlBorderWeight.xlThin;

That way is not working, you will get something like this:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Rakesh Kumar
Rakesh Kumar

Reputation: 11

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range tRange = xlWorkSheet.UsedRange;
        tRange.Borders.LineStyle = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
        tRange.Borders.Weight = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlBorderWeight.xlThin;

Upvotes: 1

X-Coder
X-Coder

Reputation: 2736

Why not to do simply:

Excel.Range tRange = xlWorkSheet.UsedRange;
tRange.Borders.LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
tRange.Borders.Weight = Excel.XlBorderWeight.xlThin;

Note: apply border after the row and cell (range) filled with data to get range simply using function .UsedRange()

Upvotes: 4

Sarath Subramanian
Sarath Subramanian

Reputation: 21281

Finally, I got it. I did this without impacting the performance too. I am taking a simple excel to explain here :

Before

enter image description here

I managed to store the range as A1:C4 in a variable dynamically in exRange and used the below code to give border

((Range)excelSheet.get_Range(exRange)).Cells.Borders.LineStyle = XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;


After

enter image description here

Upvotes: 12

Isla
Isla

Reputation: 11

For Each range In ranges
    For Each row As Range In .Range(range).Rows
        row.Cells.BorderAround(XlLineStyle.xlContinuous)
        row.Cells.Borders.Item(XlBordersIndex.xlInsideHorizontal).LineStyle = XlLineStyle.xlContinuous
        row.Cells.Borders.Item(XlBordersIndex.xlInsideVertical).LineStyle = XlLineStyle.xlContinuous
    Next
Next

Upvotes: 1

E Coder
E Coder

Reputation: 295

oRange = SHEET2.get_Range("a1", "a10");
oRange.Borders.get_Item(Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeLeft).LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
oRange.Borders.get_Item(Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeRight).LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
oRange.Borders.get_Item(Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlInsideHorizontal).LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
oRange.Borders.get_Item(Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlInsideVertical).LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;

Upvotes: 9

spickles
spickles

Reputation: 645

private void AllBorders(Excel.Borders _borders)
    {
        _borders[Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeLeft].LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
        _borders[Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeRight].LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
        _borders[Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeTop].LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
        _borders[Excel.XlBordersIndex.xlEdgeBottom].LineStyle = Excel.XlLineStyle.xlContinuous;
        _borders.Color = Color.Black;
    }

Upvotes: 24

Peter L.
Peter L.

Reputation: 7304

I'm not yet familiar wit C#, but in VBA there are Range.Borders(xlInsideVertical) and Range.Borders(xlInsideHorizontal) properties. Try to use macro-recorder and apply all borders for any workbook region. Perhaps that will help.

Upvotes: 6

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