VBA Code to Change Cell Color
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VBA Code To Change Cell Color
Excel supports more than 16 million colors in a cell; hence you should know how to set the exact color in a cell. To do this, you can use RGB (Red, Green, Blue) function in VBA to set the color of a cell. The function requires 3 numbers from 0 to 255 [e.g. RGB(234,232,98)]. Below is a practice code that changes cell colors to Green, Red and Blue.
Change a Cells Background Color
'This function can be used to change the color of a cell
Public Sub ChangeCellColor()
'Change cell color to green
Sheet1.Range("C4").Interior.Color = RGB(0, 255, 0)
'Change cell color to red
Sheet1.Range("C5").Interior.Color = RGB(255, 0, 0)
'Change cell color to blue
Sheet1.Range("C6").Interior.Color = RGB(0, 0, 255)
End Sub
VBA Code To Change Cell Color ,follow below steps:
Open an Excel file
- Press Alt+F11
- Insert a Module (Insert>Module) from menu bar
- Paste the code in the module
- Now add a shape in Excel sheet
- Give a name to the shape like ‘Change Cell Color’
- Right click on the shape and select ‘Assign Macro…’
- Select ‘ChangeCellColor’ from the list and click on ‘Ok’ button
- Done, click on the shape to change the cell colors
You can also read this post to know how to get RGB Codes of a Color.
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Download Practice File
You can also practice this through our practice files. Click on the below link to download the practice file.
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