You can do a merge in the sense of reading a cell value, appending it to the value in another cell, and then writing an empty string back to the original cell. You cannot change a cell's borders. You can change a cell's background or foreground color. If you're looking to duplicate the features of an Excel spreadsheet, you should transfer the table's data to Excel either by opening Excel or having an ActiveX container on the front panel with an Excel document in it.