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in reply to ungrouping the Textboxes in excell sheets.

More context, please. Is $ws a worksheet? If so, I'm wondering how this works -- I don't see a TextBoxes object in the Worksheet or Worksheets object (in the Object Browser).

If you can get a handle to a Range object, though, there is an Unmerge function available to break up grouped cells. You can see this yourself by looking at the Object Browser -- press Alt-F11 in Excel to bring up the VB editor, then F2 to get the Object Browser. Then I usually restrict the search to Excel only (change where it says "all libraries" to "Excel").

Edit to add: Note that it's very possible that the TextBoxes item is just not part of the version of Excel I have available to me at work (Excel 2000).

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Re^2: ungrouping the Textboxes in excell sheets.
by scratchHead (Initiate) on Mar 20, 2009 at 04:25 UTC
    hello Nkuvu, yeah $ws is the worksheet im refering,,, this works,. I just did what u adviced, but even i coudn't see the TextBoxes as u said(excel 2003 in using) (sorry i dont know much abt VB too). anyways thanks for the reply you have given,as im new to the idea given by i ll explore a lot on it.

      You might be able to just use the Ungroup function I referred to. For example, get the address of the cell you want, and do $ws->Range("A1")->Ungroup();

      Note that the range is a normal Perl string, so you can easily iterate over a number of cells:

      # Pardon the C-ish loop, it's late. for (my $row = 1; $row <= 10; $row++) { $ws->Range("A$row")->Ungroup(); } # or an alternate if you have an area: # (cell addresses off the top of my head) $ws->Range("A1:D46")->Ungroup();

      Note that I haven't had to use this function myself, so I'm not 100% positive it's the function you need. But you should be able to do some quick tests -- and look at the help for the function to see what can unmerge cells.

        hey Nkuvu, that worked, (actually the first 1 syntax error,u need to give in range..). thats a great help from from you bro, thanks a lot....
        hey Nkuvu, that worked, (actually the first 1 syntax error,u need to give in range..). thats a great help from from you bro, thanks a lot....