Information on color matching

[rdionne]

I don't know if this would be useful to anyone, but I had to find out how to match the background color of controls on my spreadsheet to the sheet's fill color and here's what I learned about the color format:

Making background color values of controls match the spreadsheet fill color.

1. Fill spreadsheet with color of your choice from indexed colors
2. Find out which index color it is
?ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("a1").interior.colorindex
=33
3. Find out the long decimal value for the color
?activeworkbook.Colors(33)
=16763904
4. Convert the decimal number to hex using the windows calculator app.
=FFCC00
5. Add padding byte 00 to start of the hex number
=00FFCC00
6. Add VB hex signifier &H before and & after the number
7. Paste the value into the background property of the controls on the worksheet.

Number format: &H00000000&
^^
padding

Colors are entered as BGR order not RGB

RGB to long hex conversion:

Color RGB(0,204,255)

Dec Hex
Red 0 00
Green 204 CC
Blue 255 FF

Result: &H00FFCC00&

[rdionne]

Please excuse the formatting problem of my post. The tabs didn't show up correctly.
I suppose a person could also alter a color in the pallete to match the control's background color.

[Juan Pablo González]

Thanks for sharing this. One thing (To save you one step), instead of ColorIndex use Color, like this:

Range("A1").Interior.Color

which would return the Long value of the color.