How to Add Color to Specific Cells via Excel VBA

Excel is the top popular software in many companies. And the function of batch processing is one of the most notable features. What’s more, VBA is the best tool for batch processing. And today let’s see the VBA code of adding color to special cells.

VBA is a kind of macro language in Excel. And in handling with large number of data and information, using this language can be more convenient. Only a few lines of VBA code have the ability of helping you achieve a lot of functions. In an Excel file, you will probably need to highlight some cell. And the marks can increase the readability of the Excel file. And the following is an example of adding color to certain cells using the VBA code.

A Sample Worksheet of Student Scores

This is a worksheet of students’ scores.

Now, you need to mark red of the scores which are below 60. Since there are many scores, it is impossible for you do mark the scores one by one. And now you can use the following VBA code to finish this necessity.

Steps of Using VBA Code

1. Press the key “Alt + F11”. Then you will see a new pop-up window. This is the interface of VBA.
2. Double click “sheet1” on the left of the interface. And then you will see a new window.
3. Copy the following code:

Sub SetColor()

Dim nRow As Integer
Dim nColumn As Integer

For nRow = 1 To Worksheets(“StudentScoreSheet”).UsedRange.Rows.Count

For nColumn = 1 To Worksheets(“StudentScoreSheet”).UsedRange.Columns.Count

If Worksheets(“StudentScoreSheet”).Cells(nRow, nColumn).Value < 60 Then

Worksheets(“StudentScoreSheet”).Cells(nRow, nColumn).Font.Color = RGB(255, 0, 0)

End If

Next nColumn

Next nRow

End Sub

4. And then paste this code to the window that pops up in Step 2.
5. Click the button of “Run”.
6. Close the window of VBA, so you come back to the window of Excel. And then you will find that all the scores below 60 become red.

This is because in the VBA code, the scores below 60 can be identified automatically. And once the system selects the scores, it will mark red of those numbers. Using this function and the VBA code can literally save a lot of time and energy.

Solution to Excel Corruption

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