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Styles in Excel
VBA examples and tools
The little VBA routines shown below will greatly easy your work with styles. As an important side effect, these also show you how the style object works in VBA.
Find cells with a certain style
This routine find cells with a style containing "demo" in its name:
Dim oSh As Worksheet
Dim oCell As Range
For Each oSh In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
For Each oCell In oSh.UsedRange.Cells
If oCell.Style Like "*demo*" Then
Application.GoTo oCell
Stop
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
As soon as a cell is encountered with a style that matches that name filter, the code stops (Stop) and you can check out the cell in detail.
Creating a list of styles
This sub adds a table of your styles on a worksheet named "Config - Styles":
Dim oSt As Style
Dim oCell As Range
Dim lCount As Long
Dim oStylesh As Worksheet
Set oStylesh = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Config - Styles")
With oStylesh
lCount = oStylesh.UsedRange.Rows.Count + 1
For Each oSt In ThisWorkbook.Styles
On Error Resume Next
Set oCell = Nothing
Set oCell = Intersect(oStylesh.UsedRange, oStylesh.Range("A:A")).Find(oSt.Name, _
oStylesh.Range("A1"), xlValues, xlWhole, , , False)
If oCell Is Nothing Then
lCount = lCount + 1
.Cells(lCount, 1).Style = oSt.Name
.Cells(lCount, 1).Value = oSt.NameLocal
.Cells(lCount, 2).Style = oSt.Name
End If
Next
End With
End Sub
Clear all formatting of cells and re-apply their styles
The code below removes all formatting of all cells and subsequently re-applies their style to them.
Watch out: if you have not adhered to using styles strictly, you will lose all formatting in your file!!!
'Resets styles of cells to their original style (resets all formatting done on top of ANY style)
Dim oCell As Range
Dim oSh As Worksheet
If MsgBox("Proceed with care:" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _
"This routine will erase all formatting done on top of the existing cell styles." & vbNewLine & _
"Continue?", vbCritical + vbOKCancel + vbDefaultButton2, GSAPPNAME) = vbOK Then
For Each oSh In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
For Each oCell In oSh.UsedRange.Cells
If oCell.MergeArea.Cells.Count = 1 Then
oCell.Style = CStr(oCell.Style)
End If
Next
Next
End If
End Sub
Replace one style with another
The code below uses a list with two columns. The column on the left contains the names of existing styles. The column to its immediate right contains the names of the style you want to replace them with.
The code will run through the selected cells in the left column and check if the style name in the column to its right differs. If so, it will prompt you with the alternative name. Clicking OK will cause the code to update ALL cells to which the old style was applied to the new style. Before running this sub you need to select the cells in the left hand column.
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Procedure : FixStyles
' Company : JKP Application Development Services (c)
' Author : Jan Karel Pieterse
' Created : 4-10-2007
' Purpose : Replaces styles with the replacement style as defined by a two column list.
' column 1 should contain the existing style, col 2 the replacing style
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dim sOldSt As String
Dim sNewSt As String
Dim oSh As Worksheet
Dim oCell As Range
Dim oSourceCell As Range
Set oSourceCell = ActiveCell
While oSourceCell.Value <> ""
sOldSt = oSourceCell.Value
sNewSt = InputBox("Please enter replacement style for:" & sOldSt, "Style changer", oSourceCell.Offset(, 1).Value)
If sNewSt = "" Then Exit Sub
If sNewSt <> "" And sNewSt <> sOldSt Then
For Each oSh In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
For Each oCell In oSh.UsedRange
If oCell.Style = sOldSt Then
Application.GoTo oCell
On Error Resume Next
oCell.Style = sNewSt
End If
Next
Next
End If
Set oSourceCell = oSourceCell.Offset(1)
Wend
End Sub
Removing formating from an Excel Table
Suppose you have just converted a range to a table (see this article), but the range had some formatting set up such as background fills and borders. Tables allow you to format things like that automatically, but now your preexisting formatting messes up the table formatting. One way to overcome this is by changing the style of the cells in the table back to the Normal style. This however removes your number formats too. The little macro below fixes that by first making a copy of the normal style, setting its Number checkbox to false and then applying the new style without number format to the table. Finally it applies the tablestyle and deletes the temporary style:
Dim oStNormalNoNum As Style
On Error Resume Next
Set oStNormalNoNum = ActiveWorkbook.Styles("NormalNoNum")
On Error GoTo 0
If oStNormalNoNum Is Nothing Then
ActiveWorkbook.Styles.Add "NormalNoNum"
Set oStNormalNoNum = ActiveWorkbook.Styles("NormalNoNum")
oStNormalNoNum.IncludeNumber = False
End If
With ActiveSheet.ListObjects(1)
.Range.Style = "NormalNoNum"
'Now apply tablestyle:
.TableStyle = "TableStyleLight1"
End With
ActiveWorkbook.Styles("NormalNoNum").Delete
End Sub
Comments
Showing last 8 comments of 67 in total (Show All Comments):Comment by: Chris Greaves (2-5-2019 16:31:00)
Thanks for blnFindaStyle. I have "borrowed" a copy.
Too, I have posted a follow-up question on Eileen's Lounge.
Post=251061
No need to post this here; I just wanted you to know that your name was being taken, but not in Vain.
Cheers
Chris
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (2-5-2019 17:16:00)
You're welcome!
Comment by: Thaddeus Lesnik (9-8-2019 16:11:00)
The purpose of having two drop down boxes would be to select one style from the list then in listbox 1 then choose a different style from the list to replace it with using listbox 2. This would be useful if, for example, I have a style which got duplicated when I copy a sheet and the style intent is the same, but two slightly different name exist.
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (9-8-2019 17:34:00)
You can use the routine called FixStyles to find out how to implement a part of what you need.
Comment by: Thaddeus Lesnik (12-8-2019 21:08:00)
Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim oSt As Style
For Each oSt In ThisWorkbook.Styles
lstbxSource.AddItem oSt.Name
lstbxDest.AddItem oSt.Name
Next oSt
End Sub
Sub cmdChange_Click() 'this is the userform button.
Dim strOldSt As String
Dim strNewSt As String
strOldSt = frmStyles.lstbxSource.Text
strNewSt = frmStyles.lstbxDest.Text
Call FixStyles(strOldSt, strNewSt)
'Report on the Status of the Completion of the Process
MsgBox "Cell Style has been remapped!", vbInformation
End Sub
Sub FixStyles(strOldSt As String, strNewSt As String)
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Procedure : FixStyles
' Purpose : Replaces styles with the replacement style as defined by listboxes in a userform.
' Listbox 1 should contain the existing style, Listbox 2 the replacing style
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dim oWs As Worksheet
Dim oCell As Range
If strNewSt = "" Then Exit Sub
If strNewSt <> "" And strNewSt <> strOldSt Then
For Each oWs In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
For Each oCell In oWs.UsedRange
If oCell.Style = strOldSt Then
Application.GoTo oCell
On Error Resume Next
oCell.Style = strNewSt
End If
Next
Next
End If
End Sub
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (27-8-2019 10:41:00)
Thanks!
Comment by: PiecevCake (28-12-2019 23:48:00)
Beginner users like me plagued with styles would hugely appreciate instructions how to use your code! )I tried pasting it in a module, returned "error-object required, tried to past in a form nothing happened?
Many thanks!
Comment by: Jan Karel Pieterse (6-1-2020 11:46:00)
I've published your comment, but please note that the site does not motify previous commenters about your comment. This means it is not likely Thaddeus will respond to your request.
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