Changing shape colors

[danieljharvey]

Hi,

I have some code to make cell colours change incrementally, but Excel will only let me change it to the colours in the palette.

I have heard you can use Shapes instead and these are not affected by the palette. I have created "Rect1" to "Rect9", so how would I go about changing their color to an RGB value in VBA code?

Cheers

 

[HarryS]

note if you are changing an object's colourindex then the range
is 0 to 51 but you can cycle this using

.colorindex = nn mod 50

These objects also have a property color which is a long

. color = 345643
or
. color = RGB(34,6,255)
rbg in range 0 to 255
you can get at a cells color directly

cells(4,5).background.color= rgb(4,240,6)
etc.

 

[HarryS]

maybe cells need
cells(4,7).interior.color = 34342
or
cells(4,8).interior.color = rgb(123,145,0)


to color parts of the text in a cell needs reference to
the cells characters

 

[danieljharvey]

Cheers, it's the shapes I'll need to change as I'm using Excel 2003 so it won't let me change to colours outside the palette with cell colouring.

So would this be the code to change a shape Red, for instance?

ActiveSheet.Shapes("Rect1").Color = RGB(255,0,0)

 

[RoryA]

ActiveSheet.Shapes("Rect1").Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0)

should do it.

 

[danieljharvey]

Aha! That's done the trick. Thank you all for your help.