Copy cells with borders, colours etc

I am doing a financial reconciliation for several months of data. I have formatted the first month - it takes 12 columns x 24 rows. Various cells within this area have borders or colours assigned to them. Now that I have the first month, I want to copy these 12 cells x 24 rows several times without losing the colours and borders. But I cannot figure out how to do that... The fill colours are copied - but none of my cell borders are copied. This is particulalry frustrating because, for some reason, Apple have made the table border process incredibly clumsy and time-consuming... For instance, when adding up a column of figures I want a single black line above the total. To do this I have to:
     1.     Click on the borders button and change the default to bottom only.
     2.     Then change the line thickness from the default "thin" to a line.
     3.     Then change the line thickness from the default .25pt to 2 points.
     4.     Then change the default colour from pale grey to black.
I can't believe there isn't a simpler way to do this. And I have to repeat this process for every cell - unless I have a few contiguous cells and can then apply the border to more than one cell in a single operation.
In my group of 12columns x 24rows I have to do 10 cell format operations as described above. This is 40 - Yes FORTY - separate operations for each month.
I have three years, or 36 months, of financials - that will require 1,440 cell border operations!!!!!!!!
Perhaps no-one at Apple ever uses cell borders? Or do they all use Excel? I do have a copy of Excel somewhere - though I am very reluctant to dig it out and reinstall it for this task.
Perhaps I am missing something - but I cannot find any way to copy the borders along with the contents and formulas, either in the (admittedly almost useless Help system) or the PDF version of the manual for Numbers 9.
If anyone can suggest a shortcut for this I would VERY much appreciate it.
ps: Heaven forbid I want to make a change to the colour of the border - the way Apple have set this up, if I change the colour the borders are all reset to the defaults for all the other parameters. So If I want to change the colour of a bottom border to Blue from Black, I have to:
     1.     Click on the borders button and change the default to bottom only.
     2.     Then change the line thickness from the default "thin" to a line.
     3.     Then change the line thickness from the default .25pt to 2 points.
     4.     Then change the default colour from black to blue.
Really, this is woeful....

Byron,
I berlieve that your difficulty with editing a previously set border is that you have made a border selection that is not sufficiently specific. When a selection includes multiple line characteristics, you will have to elimlinate the uncertainty. If on the other hand, you make a selection of a border that includes only one line type, weight and color, you can change any of those characteristics without touching the others.
Jerry

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