Changing Cell Color Based on Cell Value VBA

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AndrewMD

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Hi All,

I'm having a difficult time getting this piece of code to work. For a variety of reasons I can't use conditional formatting.

My problem:

Each cell has a different value:

  • GREEN
  • GREENAMBER
  • AMBERGREEN
  • AMBER
  • AMBERRED
  • REDAMBER
  • RED

I simply want something that if the cell says "RED" the code will color that cell red etc. The total population of values is roughly A2:BZ146. The code I have at the moment doesn't cycle through cells properly and every cells ends up colored as whatever color is at the end of the code. I'm just using a test sheet at the moment for the range A1:A7 to try to get it to work.

Code: 
Sub ColourChange()Dim rng As Range
Dim cell As Range


Set rng = Worksheets("RULES").Range("A1:A7")


For Each cell In rng.Cells
 
  If cell.Value = "GREEN" Then
    With Selection.Interior
        .Pattern = xlSolid
        .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
        .Color = 13561798 'GREEN
        .TintAndShade = 0
        .PatternTintAndShade = 0
    End With
    
  ElseIf cell.Value = "GREENAMBER" Then
    With Selection.Interior
        .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
        .Gradient.Degree = 0
        .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
        .Color = 13561798 'GREEN
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
        .Color = 10284031 'AMBER
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    
  ElseIf cell.Value = "AMBERGREEN" Then
      With Selection.Interior
        .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
        .Gradient.Degree = 0
        .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
        .Color = 10284031 'AMBER
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
        .Color = 13561798 'GREEN
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    
  ElseIf cell.Value = "AMBER" Then
       With Selection.Interior
        .Pattern = xlSolid
        .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
        .Color = 10284031 'AMBER
        .TintAndShade = 0
        .PatternTintAndShade = 0
    End With
    
  ElseIf cell.Value = "AMBERRED" Then
       With Selection.Interior
        .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
        .Gradient.Degree = 0
        .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
        .Color = 10284031 'AMBER
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
        .Color = 13551615 'RED
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    
  ElseIf cell.Value = "REDAMBER" Then
       With Selection.Interior
        .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
        .Gradient.Degree = 0
        .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
        .Color = 13551615 'RED
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    With Selection.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
        .Color = 10284031 'AMBER
        .TintAndShade = 0
    End With
    
  ElseIf cell.Value = "RED" Then
       With Selection.Interior
        .Pattern = xlSolid
        .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
        .Color = 13551615 'RED
        .TintAndShade = 0
        .PatternTintAndShade = 0
    End With
    
  End If


Next cell


End Sub

Any ideas? Thanks!
 

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Seems like the first thing to do is replace "selection.interior" with "cell.interior"

Code: 
Sub ColourChange()
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim cell As Range




    Set rng = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A7")


    For Each cell In rng.Cells


        If cell.Value = "GREEN" Then
            With cell.Interior
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
                .Color = 13561798                     'GREEN
                .TintAndShade = 0
                .PatternTintAndShade = 0
            End With


        ElseIf cell.Value = "GREENAMBER" Then
            With cell.Interior
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
                .Color = 13561798                     'GREEN
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
                .Color = 10284031                     'AMBER
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With


        ElseIf cell.Value = "AMBERGREEN" Then
            With cell.Interior
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
                .Color = 10284031                     'AMBER
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
                .Color = 13561798                     'GREEN
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With


        ElseIf cell.Value = "AMBER" Then
            With cell.Interior
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
                .Color = 10284031                     'AMBER
                .TintAndShade = 0
                .PatternTintAndShade = 0
            End With


        ElseIf cell.Value = "AMBERRED" Then
            With cell.Interior
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
                .Color = 10284031                     'AMBER
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
                .Color = 13551615                     'RED
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With


        ElseIf cell.Value = "REDAMBER" Then
            With cell.Interior
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(0)
                .Color = 13551615                     'RED
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With
            With cell.Interior.Gradient.ColorStops.Add(1)
                .Color = 10284031                     'AMBER
                .TintAndShade = 0
            End With


        ElseIf cell.Value = "RED" Then
            With cell.Interior
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
                .Color = 13551615                     'RED
                .TintAndShade = 0
                .PatternTintAndShade = 0
            End With
        End If




    Next cell
End Sub
 
Upvote 0
An easy and not very sophisticated way would be to have the color names and colors in a different sheet.
Put the name of the colors in Sheet2 starting at A1
Put the colors of these names beside it in B1 on down
Run this from Sheet1. Change all the references as required.

Code: 
Sub Maybe()
Dim c As Range
For each c in Range("A1:A7")
c.Interior.Color = Sheets("Sheet2").Range("A1:A" & Sheets("Sheet2").Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row).Find(c.Value).Offset(, 1).Interior.Color
Next c
End Sub

You could use an array also.
 
Upvote 0
I would do it this way using case:

Just modify the range"

I did two for you.
Just keep adding case statements




Code: 
Sub Fill_My_Colors()
'Modified  11/1/2018  2:14:01 PM  EDT
Dim r As Range
For Each r In Range("A2:A7")
    With r.Interior
    
        Select Case r.Value
   
            Case "Green"
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
                .Color = 13561798 'GREEN
                .TintAndShade = 0
                .PatternTintAndShade = 0
            Case "GREENAMBER"
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                .Gradient.ColorStops.Clear
                .Gradient.ColorStops.Add (0)
                .Color = 13561798
                .TintAndShade = 0
        End Select
    End With
Next
End Sub
 
Upvote 0
As 'My Answer Is This' says, the Select Case structure is a lot cleaner than a continuing succession of ElseIf statements. Also no need to include default properties unless you are changing them.

Code: 
Sub ColourChange()
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim cell As Range
    Set rng = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A7")
    For Each cell In rng.Cells
        With cell.Interior
            Select Case cell.Value
            Case "GREEN"
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .Color = 13561798                     'GREEN
            Case "GREENAMBER"
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                With .Gradient.ColorStops
                    .Clear
                    .Add(0).Color = 13561798          'GREEN
                    .Add(1).Color = 10284031          'AMBER
                End With
            Case "AMBERGREEN"
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                With .Gradient.ColorStops
                    .Clear
                    .Add(0).Color = 10284031          'AMBER
                    .Add(1).Color = 13561798          'GREEN
                End With
            Case "AMBER"
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .Color = 10284031                     'AMBER
            Case "AMBERRED"
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                With .Gradient.ColorStops
                    .Clear
                    .Add(0).Color = 10284031          'AMBER
                    .Add(1).Color = 13551615          'RED
                End With
            Case "REDAMBER"
                .Pattern = xlPatternLinearGradient
                .Gradient.Degree = 0
                With .Gradient.ColorStops
                    .Clear
                    .Add(0).Color = 13551615          'RED
                    .Add(1).Color = 10284031          'AMBER
                End With
            Case "RED"
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .Color = 13551615                     'RED
            End Select
        End With
    Next cell
End Sub
 
Upvote 0
If all parameters remain the same you can use case like this.

Code: 
Case "Green", "Green Socks", "Green Hat", "Apple", "Grapes"
                .Pattern = xlSolid
                .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
                .Color = 13561798 'GREEN
                .TintAndShade = 0
                .PatternTintAndShade = 0
 
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