I have a VBA macro over Excel 2013 which generate a separate excel report. In this excel report that is created, I would like to turn off the GridLines.
The only piece of code that I come across to make this happens is as below
ActiveWindow.DisplayGridlines = False
However, this excel is generated in the background ie,
Dim appObject As New Excel.Application
appObject.Visible = False
Which means that this report is not the ActiveWindow. Is there an alternate way of turning off the gridlines without using the ActiveWindow object?
If you have a reference to the workbook, you can just iterate over all of the Windows in its collection. If the application isn't visible, you should only get 1 but it's safer than trying to hard code an index:
Private Sub ToggleGridLines(target As Workbook)
Dim wnd As Window
For Each wnd In target.Windows
wnd.DisplayGridlines = False
Next
End Sub
Note that this will set change the display on the active worksheet in the workbook - why this is a property of the window and not the worksheet is beyond me.
EDIT:
Thanks to the link that @Tim shared, I realized I'd completely spaced off the SheetViews
collection. This should turn off gridlines for an arbitrary Worksheet
object:
Private Sub TurnOffGridLines(target As Worksheet)
Dim view As WorksheetView
For Each view In target.Parent.Windows(1).SheetViews
If view.Sheet.Name = target.Name Then
view.DisplayGridlines = False
Exit Sub
End If
Next
End Sub
The ActiveWindow is a member of the Windows objects collection. As with any collection, simply refer to the actual window by name rather than by specifying the active window. eg
Windows("My Workbook.xls").DisplayGridlines = False
We can either do it as "Comintern" suggested or activating the wanted sheets to execute de adequate line of code in a loop. I tried the code posted above in several ways and I'm posting the snippet that worked the best for me:
Sub GridLines(Optional target As Worksheet, Optional display As Boolean = True)
Dim oWnd As Window
Dim oShView As WorksheetView
If IsMissing(target) Or target Is Nothing Then
For Each oShView In ActiveSheet.Parent.Windows(1).SheetViews
oShView.DisplayGridlines = display
Next
Else
For Each oShView In target.Parent.Windows(1).SheetViews
If oShView.Sheet.Name = target.Name Then
oShView.DisplayGridlines = display
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
Set oShView = Nothing
Set oWnd = Nothing
End Sub
Any feedback is very welcomed
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