VBA Font Color

Excel VBA Font Color

VBA Font Color property is used to change the font color of excel cells using vba code. We can change the color of the font in multiple ways using color index, color property with RGB function.

When I prepare a dashboard in excel I usually spend a considerable amount of time formatting cells, fonts, etc. Often I feel like excel beautician by looking at the various colors of the excel formatting. Changing the font color in excel worksheet is an easy job but when it comes to Excel, you should know the ways of writing VBA code to change the font color.

To change the font color, first, we need to identify what are the cells we are going to change.

Range (“A1:A10”)

Then we need to select the FONT property.

Range (“A1:A10”).Font

Then what do we want to do with this font, so select Color?

Range (“A1:A10”).Font.Color

Like this, we need to construct the code to change the font color. It looks difficult, isn’t it?

But remember everything seems to be tough at the beginning, later you will get the hang of it.

How to Change Font Color using VBA?

Example #1 – Using Color Index

Color Index property is different from Color property in VBA. By using numerical values we can change the color of cells, fonts.

Numbers are ranging from 1 to 56 and each number represents different colors. Below is the list of numbers and their colors.

Ok, lets test this out.

I have a value in cell A1.

I want to change the color of the cell A1 font to green. Below is the code.

Code:

Sub FontColor_Example1()

  Range("A1").Font.ColorIndex = 10

End Sub

This will change the color of the cell A1 font to green.

We can also use CELLS property to change the color of the font.

Code:

Sub FontColor_Example1()

  Cells(1, 1).Font.ColorIndex = 10

End Sub

Like this, we can use numbers from 1 to 56 to apply the desired color to the font.

Example #2 – Using Color Property

Color Index has very limited colors from 1 to 56, but by using COLOR property we can use 8 built-in colors vbBlack, vbRed, vbGreen, vbBlue, vbYellow, vbMagenta, vbCyan, vbWhite.

For these colors we don’t need to supply any numbers rather we can just access them by using their name as shown above. Below is the example code for all the 8 colors.

Code:

Sub vbBlack_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbBlack

End Sub

Code:

Sub vbRed_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbRed

End Sub

Code:

Sub vbGreen_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbGreen

End Sub

Code:

Sub vbBlue_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbBlue

End Sub

Code:

Sub vbYellow_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbYellow

End Sub

Code:

Sub vbMagenta_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbMagenta

End Sub

Code:

Sub vbCyan_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbCyan

End Sub

Code:

Sub vbWhite_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = vbWhite

End Sub

Example #3 – Using Color Property with RGB Function

As we have seen we have only 8 built-in colors to work with. But to have a wide variety of colors we need to use the function called RGB, apart from built-in colors we can create our own colors by using vba RGB function.

Look at the syntax of the RGB function.

RGB (Red, Green, Blue)

RGB stands for “Red, Green, and Blue”. To construct colors we need to supply numbers from 0 to 255 for each color.

Below are a few examples for you.

Below are some of the macro code examples

Code:

Sub RGB_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 0)
  'Change the font colour to black
End Sub

Code:

Sub RGB_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = RGB(16, 185, 199)
  'Font color will be this
End Sub

Code:

Sub RGB_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = RGB(106, 15, 19)
  'Font color will be this
End Sub

Code:

Sub RGB_Example()

  Range("A1").Font.Color = RGB(216, 55, 19)
  'Font color will be this
End Sub

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