NamedRange.MergeArea Property
Gets a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range that represents the merged range containing the NamedRange control.
Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
ReadOnly Property MergeArea As Range
Range MergeArea { get; }
Property Value
Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range
A Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range that represents the merged range containing the NamedRange control. If the NamedRange control is not in a merged range, this property returns a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range that represents the NamedRange control.
Remarks
The MergeArea property only works on a single-cell range.
Examples
The following code example displays the value of the MergeArea and MergeCells properties of a single-cell NamedRange before and after using the Merge method to merge a multiple-cell NamedRange that contains the single-cell NamedRange.
This example is for a document-level customization.
Private Sub MergeRange()
Dim namedRange1 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange _
= Me.Controls.AddNamedRange(Me.Range("A1", "A5"), _
"namedRange1")
Dim namedRange2 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange _
= Me.Controls.AddNamedRange(Me.Range("A1"), "namedRange2")
Dim beforeMergeAddress As String = _
namedRange2.MergeArea.Address(, , _
Excel.XlReferenceStyle.xlA1, , )
MessageBox.Show("Before merging, the MergeArea property is '" & _
beforeMergeAddress & "' and the MergeCells property is " & _
" '" & namedRange2.MergeCells.ToString() & "'.")
namedRange1.Select()
namedRange1.Merge(False)
Dim afterMergeAddress As String = _
namedRange2.MergeArea.Address(, , _
Excel.XlReferenceStyle.xlA1, , )
MessageBox.Show("After merging, the MergeArea property is '" & _
afterMergeAddress & "' and the MergeCells property is " & _
" '" & namedRange2.MergeCells.ToString() & "'.")
End Sub
private void MergeRange()
{
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange namedRange1 =
this.Controls.AddNamedRange(this.Range["A1", "A5"],
"namedRange1");
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange namedRange2 =
this.Controls.AddNamedRange(this.Range["A1"],
"namedRange2");
string beforeMergeAddress = namedRange2.MergeArea.get_Address(
Excel.XlReferenceStyle.xlA1);
MessageBox.Show("Before merging, the MergeArea property is '" +
beforeMergeAddress + "' and the MergeCells property is " +
" '" + namedRange2.MergeCells.ToString() + "'.");
namedRange1.Select();
namedRange1.Merge(false);
string afterMergeAddress = namedRange2.MergeArea.get_Address(
Excel.XlReferenceStyle.xlA1);
MessageBox.Show("After merging, the MergeArea property is '" +
afterMergeAddress + "' and the MergeCells property is " +
" '" + namedRange2.MergeCells.ToString() + "'.");
}
.NET Framework Security
- Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.