Excel: Remove color background from cells, restore grid.

[tolstoi]

1) I select cells and add a background color, say yellow.
2) I later want to remove the background color from a few of the colored
cells.
3) The background changes to white BUT the gray grid lines that surrounded
the cells have vanished.
4) I try adding a border but it looks different.

How do I restore the original cell grid lines to the worksheet?

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi tolstoi

Choose "No Fill" instead of White in the Fill Color dialog

 

[Jim Cone]

A cell interior color overrides the gridlines surrounding the cell.
Therefore, the common border (gridline) for an adjacent uncolored cell will not show.
You can come close to duplicating the appearance of a gridline by using a
thin solid border with a light gray color.
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware


"tolstoi" <[email protected]>
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1) I select cells and add a background color, say yellow.
2) I later want to remove the background color from a few of the colored
cells.
3) The background changes to white BUT the gray grid lines that surrounded
the cells have vanished.
4) I try adding a border but it looks different.

How do I restore the original cell grid lines to the worksheet?