Excel vba background color

Change the Background Colors in Excel VBA is an easy task.

In this blog post, you will learn about changing the background colors in Excel VBA.

In Excel, we change the background color by selecting the range, then go to the ‘Home’ tab then go to the ‘Font’ group and select the ‘Fill Color’ option.

Click the drop-down link and there are multiple colors, which you can apply into your selected range where you want to change the background color.

Here, you will learn about how to change the background colors with the help of VBA.

In VBA, you will learn to change the background color with three (3) easiest methods.

In this method, you can use 8 standard colors in the VBA. These color are as follows:-

Black – vbBlack
White – vbWhite
Red -vbRed
Blue – vbBlue
Green – vbGreen
Yellow – vbYellow
Cyan – vbCyan
Magenta – vbMagenta

These are 8 standard colors, which we can apply with their names in VBA.

Change the Background Colors in Excel VBA, we need to use the above standard colors in VBA Code.

Now, we will apply these codes in one of our VBA macros to change the colors of background colors in Excel VBA within cells from range “A1” to “A10”.

By executing the above VBA code by pressing “F8” step by step, our result will be shown as the below image:-

If you execute the above code by pressing “F8”, you will notice each execution will change the background colors.

Below is the another method to “Change the Background Colors in Excel VBA”.

Change the Background Colors – Using ColorIndex Method

In this method, there are 56 colors that we can apply to ‘change our background colors in Excel VBA,.

Each number from 1 to 56 has a particular color code.

When we will apply this method to change the background color, we will change the code ‘ColorIndex’ in place of ‘Color’.

Now we will apply for these numbers in the VBA editor window to change the background colors.

See the code in the VBA editor window:-

Now we will execute the above code by pressing “F8” again and again to execute each of the codes.

See below image for result:-

Here we have only applied some code to change the background colors in Excel VBA.

But, in this method, we can use the number from 1 to 56 to apply different colors.

Changing background color by RGB (Red, Green, Blue) Method

RGB is a short form of Red, Green, and Blue.

These are the basic or primary colors and by combining these colors we can create multiple other new colors.

This is our 3rd method to ‘change the background colors in Excel VBA.

When applying these colors in VBA can be written as RGB (255,255,255).

Values in the bracket are the color code of each color, where the range of each color from 0 to 255. Where “0” is the minimum and “255” is the maximum range.

We can create multiples of colors with the help of these three (3) color codes.

Between ranges we can put any number for any color combination.

See the VBA code in the VBA Editor window:-

Now pressing “F8” to execute the above code step by step, we will get the following result.

See the image below:-

Here, you can see that how we change the background colors in Excel VBA by the RGB method.

Here, in this post, we have explained the 3 easiest methods to change the background colors in Excel VBA.

Furthermore, details for the Excel Interior Color (Background Color) are provided on the Microsoft Office website.

I hope you find this post useful.

Please feel free to put your comments or suggestion.

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Excel VBA RGB Color

RGB can also be called red, green, and blue. So, one may use this function to get the numerical value of the color value. This function has three components as a named range, and they are red, blue, and green. The other colors are the components of these three different colors in VBA.

In VBA, everything boils down to the coding of every piece. For example, we can use the RANGE object if you want to reference some portion of the worksheet. If you want to change the font color, we can use the NAME property of the range. Then, write the font name that we need but imagine a situation of changing the font color or the cell’s background color. Of course, we can use built-in VB colors like vbGreen, vbBlue, vbRed, etc. But, we have a dedicated function to play around with different colors, i.e., RGB.

Below is the syntax of the RGB color function.

As you can see above, we can supply three arguments: red, green, and blue. These three parameters can only accept integer numbers ranging from 0 to 255. The result of this function will be the “Long” data type.

Change Color of Cells using VBA RGB Function

You can download this VBA RGB Excel Template here – VBA RGB Excel Template

Example #1

We have numbers from cells A1 to A8, as shown in the below image.

We will try to change the font color to some random color for this range of cells by using the RGB function.

Start the macro procedure first.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example1()

End Sub

First, we need to reference the range of cells of fonts we want to change the color of. In this case, our range of cells is A1 to A8, so supply the same  using the RANGE object.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example1()

  Range ("A1:A8")

End Sub

Put a dot to see the IntelliSense list of RANGE objects. From the IntelliSense list, we are trying to change the font color, so choose the FONT property from the list.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example1()

  Range("A1:A8").Font

End Sub

Once we chose the FONT property in this property, we tried to change the color, so we chose the color property of the FONT.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example1()

  Range("A1:A8").Font.Color

End Sub

Put an equal sign and open the RGB function.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example1()

  Range("A1:A8").Font.Color = RGB(

End Sub

Give random integer numbers ranging from 0 to 255 for all three arguments of the RGB function.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example1()

  Range("A1:A8").Font.Color = RGB(300, 300, 300)

End Sub

Now, run the code and see the result of font colors of the cells from A1 to A8.

Output:

So, the colors of the font changed from black to some other. The color depends on the numbers we give to the RGB function.

Below are RGB color codes to get some of the common colors.

You can just change the integer number combination from 0 to 255 to get the different sorts of colors.

Example #2

For the same range of cells, let us see how to change the background color of these cells.

First, supply the range of cells by using the RANGE object.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example2()

  Range ("A1:A8").

End Sub

This time we are changing the background color of the mentioned cells, so we have nothing to do with the FONT property. Now, choose the “Interior” property of the RANGE object to change the background color.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example2()

  Range("A1:A8").Interior

End Sub

Once the “Interior” property is selected, a dot to see the properties and methods of this “Interior” property.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example2()

  Range("A1:A8").Interior.

End Sub

Since we are changing the interior color of the mentioned cells, choose the “Color” property.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example2()

  Range("A1:A8").Interior.Color

End Sub

Set the interior color property of the range of cells (A1 to A8) out the equal sign and open the RGB function.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example2()

  Range("A1:A8").Interior.Color = RGB(

End Sub

Enter the random number as you want.

Code:

Sub RGB_Example2()

  Range("A1:A8").Interior.Color = RGB(0, 255, 255)

End Sub

Run the code and see the background color.

Output:

The background color has changed.

Things to Remember Here

• RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue.
• A combination of these three colors will give different colors.
• All these three parameters can accept integer values between 0 to 255 only. It will reset any numbers above this to 255.

Recommended Articles

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• VBA Font Color
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• Color Index in VBA
• Class in VBA
• VBA MsgBox (Yes/No)