in reply to Re^2: Adding Borders to Excel Data (Excel::Writer)
in thread Adding Borders to Excel Data (Excel::Writer)

Take a look at Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks.

This code demo shows how to remove the borders around a cell. You could adapt this to scan down the columns and use some logic around previous cell,next cell to remove the borders you don't want.

#!perl use strict; use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; Win32::OLE->Option(Warn => 3); my $ex = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application') || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit'); # change filename to suit my $wb = $ex->Workbooks->Open('c:\\temp\\border.xls') ; my $ws = $wb->sheets(1); my $cell = $ws->Cells(7,2); # b7 $cell->Borders(7)->{LineStyle} = xlNone; #left $cell->Borders(8)->{LineStyle} = xlNone; #top $cell->Borders(9)->{LineStyle} = xlNone; #bottom $cell->Borders(10)->{LineStyle} = xlNone; #right # save and exit $wb->SaveAs( 'c:\\temp\\changedborder.xls' );
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