Copying styles from a range to another range?

Question

I have an excel file that I\'m using as a template where I add information in as it\'s needed.

I have special styles and merges that need to be done on a couple of range

Answer 1

Your workload are to copy the six styles, e.g.
new_third_col_cell.font = copy(third_col_cell.font)

Try to copy only the style reference, instead of assigning new styles, for instance

target_cell._style = copy(source_cell._style)

You can save ~10 %, per Style, if not all Styles are are used in all cells.
Copy only used styles, for instance:

if source_cell._style.fontId: target_cell.font = copy(s_cell.font)
...

Besides this, consider to slim your code, for instance:

def copy_style(s_cell, t_cell):
    ...

def merge_cells(ws, row, offset, columns_456):
    ...

def main(recommended, plans):
    column_456 = [4,5,6]

    for a in xrange(1, len(plans)):
        offset = 3 * a

        # Create blank templates for plans
        for x in xrange(5, 549):
            if x != 42:
              for column in column_456:
                  cell = recommended.cell(row=x, column=column)
                  if cell.has_style:
                      copy_style(cell, recommended.cell(row=x, column=column+offset))

            if (x >= 6 and x <= 33) or x == 36 or x == 41 or x == 44:
                merge_cells(recommended, x, offset, column_456)