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Comment on Excel Styles and formats by sysmod

sysmod — Fri, 31 May 2013 17:31:15 +0000

An IT summer for me, looking forward to an offpeak break later.
It’ll be nice for you to be away from the heat of a London summer.
Mind you given the uncertain weather many Londoners might be hoping for a warm summer!

Amuse-toi bien en Suisse! J’ai envie d’être là.

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by excelandaccess

excelandaccess — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:35:45 +0000

A non IT summer, does that mean you will not be working?

Thank you for the additional info above.

I love your blog. Great content.

Have a great weekend.

Christopher

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by Simon

Simon — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:31:31 +0000

Christopher
This is good for .xlsm/x, it goes outside the OM so is fast and clears them all out:

http://sergeig888.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/net4-0-version-of-the-xlstylestool-is-now-available/

this is good for cell format issues in .xls:

http://xlsgenreduction.arstdesign.com/index_en.html#Download

Definitely recommending .xlsm/x now, had so much crap with the binaries, its not worth it, even for the perf improvements.

POB – just about to move back from lndn to ch, ready for a non IT summer. you?

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by sysmod

sysmod — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:09:03 +0000

Simon,
I’ve seen problem *Names* that came from Asian sources, but not yet the *Styles* you found above, that can not be deleted.

What else you up to these days?

P.S. Nicely done John, that’s uncannily like my code at
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-excel/excel-2007-spontaneously-formats-entire-work-book/1ae533af-ecee-41fa-866a-2590343a111d

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by excelandaccess

excelandaccess — Fri, 31 May 2013 15:57:13 +0000

What are the other tools mentioned above?

Christopher

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by Simon

Simon — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:04:37 +0000

no, I usually go by index and that fails too, its not the name in the OM its deeper in the Excel codebase

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by john owen (@John_Owen_)

john owen (@John_Owen_) — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:00:21 +0000

Is it worth perhaps converting the style names to double byte and then referencing them by name to delete them?

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by Simon

Simon — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:55:26 +0000

I have lots of code in lots of languages to delete normal styles, my question is do you ever come across any that this will not delete due to strange names.
(Your code (and our code) fails to delete over 200 of these styles).
(nice try though… :-)

Comment on Excel Styles and formats by john owen (@John_Owen_)

john owen (@John_Owen_) — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:42:15 +0000

I use this …

Sub ResetCellStyles()

Dim objStyle As Style
Dim wkbTemp As Workbook
Dim wkbActive As Workbook

‘ First, remove all styles other than Excel’s own.
‘ they may have arrived from pasting from other workbooks

For Each objStyle In ActiveWorkbook.Styles

ShowDetailMessage vbNullString
On Error Resume Next
If Not objStyle.BuiltIn Then objStyle.Delete
On Error GoTo 0

‘Second, revert the remaining styles to Excel’s default for a new workbook

Set wkbActive = ActiveWorkbook
Set wkbTemp = Workbooks.Add
wkbActive.Styles.Merge wkbTemp
wkbTemp.Close savechanges:=False

ActiveWorkbookStop “Finishing …”, False

Set objStyle = Nothing
Set wkbTemp = Nothing
Set wkbActive = Nothing

End Sub

Comment on Excel VBA tutor by David

David — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:42:09 +0000

Simon, did you ever find someone for this? And what level of tutoring (one-on-one or group btw) were they looking for?