Thanks for the response... That actually answered one of my questions but raised another. Since you mentioned that the background color only covers the gridlines, I was able to make them come back visually by setting the color index to xlColorIndexNone. Worked fine, and I know how to handle that problem in the future.

However, I am unfamiliar with using borders in VBA... Can you elucidate a little on that? For example, how do we set or remove borders from a cell using VBA?

Thanks...