---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrea Gavana <andrea.gav...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [python-win32] Formatting parts of an excel cell To: Mark Tolonen <metolone+gm...@gmail.com>
Hi, On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Mark Tolonen wrote: > > "Baehr, Manuel" <manuel.ba...@comsoft.aero> wrote in message > news:737a64deb003704788e5ce515ed146054b6...@csmail.comsoft.de... >> >> Hi John, >> >>> Check out the thread "Multiple formats in a cell" in this >>> group around 2009-03-06. >> >> thanks for the link! However, I can't use xlwt (and xlrd) because I have >> to modify an existing excel sheet containing macros. Therefore I used >> the "win32com" module in python under Windows. This works pretty fine >> except for my original problem. >> >> Any idea how to do it using win32com? So far I only know how to set >> properties of an entire cell. >> >> cell.Font.ColorIndex = 6 >> >> But as I said, I would like to do it for parts of the text of the cell >> content. >> >> Cheers, >> Manuel > > I recorded an Excel macro to color parts of a cell to find the correct > syntax. This should work, but I get an error: > >>>> xl.ActiveCell.Characters(1,5).ColorIndex > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module> > AttributeError: Characters instance has no __call__ method > > The Excel documentation says Characters is a method that should support > Start and Length parameters. > > Anybody know how to call this correctly? You may try to use the FlagAsMethod method like this: from win32com.client.dynamic import DumbDispatch yourCell.Select() s = DumbDispatch(self.xlsapp.Selection) s._FlagAsMethod('Characters') s.Characters(1,5).ColorIndex = whatever Andrea. "Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality." http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/ -- Andrea. "Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality." http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/ _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
