QueryTable.PreserveFormatting Property

True if any formatting common to the first five rows of data are applied to new rows of data in the query table. Unused cells aren’t formatted. The property is False if the last AutoFormat applied to the query table is applied to new rows of data. The default value is True.

Syntax

expression.PreserveFormatting

expression   A variable that represents a QueryTable object.

Remarks

For database query tables, the default formatting setting is xlSimple.

The new AutoFormat style is applied to the query table when the table is refreshed. The AutoFormat is reset to None whenever PreserveFormatting is set to False. As a result, any AutoFormat that’s set before PreserveFormatting is set to False and before the query table is refreshed doesn’t take effect, and the resulting query table has no formatting applied to it.

If you import data using the user interface, data from a Web query or a text query is imported as a QueryTable object, while all other external data is imported as a ListObject object.

If you import data using the object model, data from a Web query or a text query must be imported as a QueryTable, while all other external data can be imported as either a ListObject or a QueryTable.

You can use the QueryTable property of the ListObject to access the PreserveFormatting property.

Example

This example preserves the formatting of the first PivotTable report on worksheet one.

  Worksheets(1).PivotTables("Pivot1").PreserveFormatting = True

This example demonstrates how setting PreserveFormatting to False causes the AutoFormat to be set to xlRangeAutoFormatNone instead of the specified xlRangeAutoFormatColor1 format.

  With Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1).QueryTables(1)
    .Range.AutoFormat = xlRangeAutoFormatColor1
    .PreserveFormatting = False
    .Refresh
End With

See Also

• QueryTable Object
• QueryTable Object Members