Setting Cell Borders

I want to be able to set the borders of a cell in Numbers 09 individually. Having chosen one selection, say a left border and set it; if I then select the right border to set it the setting of the left border is removed which is most frustrating. Is there any way of overcoming this restriction. By the way this is one thing than Excel (I'll wash my mouth out out as soon as I've logged out!) does very easily.

Jimay wrote:
I think I've got it at last but it does seem back to front. I think that it would be much better if you could set the border properties (line width, line type and colour) and then select the cells and click on the borders which you want to have the set properties
Goes directly against the grain of the usual grammar: Select, then perform action on the selection.
Think of the Copy process:
Select an object (or a block of text, then Copy.
Select a location to place the copied object/text, then Paste.
Regards,
Barry

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I must apologizes.
It seems that I didn't understand well the problem.
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お世話になっております。
Microsoft オフィス用レポート生成ツールキットを使って
LabVIEWで収集したデータをExcelファイルで出力しようと考えています。
そこで質問が有ります。
題名のようにExcel Set Cell Color and Border.viのbackground color 設定についてです。
デフォルト（未配線）では白に設定されていますが、”色なし”に設定するにはどうしたら良いのでしょうか？
又、罫線色等を指定する数値設定に関しては、何処を調べたら良いのでしょうか？
ご教授の程、宜しくお願い致します。

_YN 様
平素よりNI製品をご利用頂きまして誠にありがとうございます。
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ご質問にお答え致します。
色なしにしたいとの事ですが、こちらでExcel Set Cell Color and Border.viを使用して簡単なVIを実行させてみましたが色なしに設定することはできませんでした。
そこで質問したいのですが色なしにする理由というのはバックグラウンドが白のままだとセルの枠が見えなくなるからでしょうか。
もしそうであれば設定により枠をつけることができますのでそちらの方を試して頂けたらと思います。
方法としましては同じExcel Set Cell Color and Border.viを使い設定します。
アイコンの上部にピンク色のピンが２つあるかと思いますがそちらからセル内側の線、外側の線を設定できます。
添付した画像を参照して下さい。
画像のように設定しますとセルに黒色の枠ができると思います。
数値設定などに関しても質問されていますが、そちらはヘルプがありますのでそちらを参照頂けると詳しい情報がわかるかと思います。
LabVIEWでVIを開いている時に　ctrl + H を押しますと小さいウィンドウ「詳細ヘルプ」が立ち上がります、その状態でマウスのポインタをアイコンに重ねて頂きますと詳細ヘルプにアイコンの説明が記述されます。
ウィンドウズ内のリンクからオンラインヘルプを参照することもできます。
上記内容をご確認いただきまして、何かS_YN様の意図と違う点などありましたらご連絡下さい。
宜しくお願い致します。
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