Change Font color on scroll down - excel

In over my head...help. I need to create code to change the font color in A4 to white when a user scrolls down to row 15.
Or is there a conditional formatting formula I could use instead?
This is my failed attempt:
Sub ChangeFontColor()
If ActiveSheet.Name = "Test" Then
If ActiveWindow.VisibleRange.Rows(15) Then
Range("A4").Font.Color = RGB(255, 255, 255)
End If
End If
End Sub

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How to change specific cell colours to No Fill across multiple tabs in Excel?

I am currently trying to change Cells across several worksheets in a Workbook which have a specific colour to No Fill. Here is the code I am using below. Can anyone help?
Sub YellowFillToNoFill()
'RGB(246, 244, 150) Yellow Colour To change to no Fill
'PURPOSE: Change any cell with a Yellow fill color to a No fill color
Dim cell As Range
'Optimize Code
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
'Ensure Cell Range Is Selected
If TypeName(Selection) <> "Range" Then
MsgBox "Please select some cells before running"
Exit Sub
End If
'Loop Through Each Cell
For Each cell In ActiveSheet.UsedRange 'Can also use Range("C1,C2" etc.) instead of
'Selection.Cells' or 'ActiveSheet.UsedRange'
If cell.Interior.Color = RGB(246, 244, 150) Then
cell.Interior.Color = xlNone
End If
Next
End Sub
To reset the value, use Use cell.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
Color defines the color that is displayed. It's a long value that contains the RGB-value of the color.
ColorIndex is the index into the table of predefined colors (the table of colors you see when you select a color in Excel). The special value xlNone (-4142) removes any color setting.

Strike through blue colored rows after filtering

My code to strike through blue colored visible rows after filtering a table isn't working as expected
Public Sub EditRows()
Dim rng As Range
Dim cell As Range
Dim Database As Worksheet
Set Database = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1)
Set rng = Database.AutoFilter.Range
Set rng = rng.Offset(1, 0).Resize(rng.Rows.count - 1, 1)
'Loop Through each visible row after filtering
For Each cell In rng.Columns(9).Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
'Strike through entire row if row is either these two shades of blue
If cell.Interior.Color = RGB(0, 112, 192) Or cell.Interior.Color = vbBlue Then
cell.Rows(rng).Font.Strikethrough = True
End If
Next cell
End Sub
Edit: Sorry for the confusion, the IF condition was based on the font color of that column instead of the interior color.
For Each cell In rng.Columns(9).Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
If cell.Font.Color = vbBlue Then
cell.EntireRow.Font.Strikethrough = True
End If
Next cell
4 things:
(1) First thing you need to check is if your code is dealing with the correct range of data. Check if the variable rng contains the range you are expecting, eg by putting a statement Debug.Print rng.address after the assignment. If that is okay, check if the loop if using the cells you are expecting, for example by putting a Debug.Print cell.addess inside the loop.
(2) If you are sure the loop handles the cells you are interested in, check if the blue you are checking is the correct blue. Set a breakpoint to your if-statement, execute the loop until a cell is hit that is blue (check the address) and check the interior-color in the debugger. vbBlue is 16711680 (&HFF0000), your manually defined blue color is 12611584 (&HC07000). If the color matches, it should enter the If-statement.
(3) If the cells are blue because of conditional formatting, check cell.DisplayFormat.Color rather than cell.Interior.Color
(4) I assume that you want to strikethrough the cell having blue color, so the statement should be simply cell.Font.Strikethrough = True.

How to change value of a cell based on cell fill color

I have a spreadsheet in excel where there are three types of cell. Black cells, yellow cells and cells with no fill. I am trying to write code so that the black cells will contain value 1, the yellow cells value 2 and the no fill cells value 0.
So far, this is what I have for the black and yellow cells:
Sub changeValuesBasedOnColour()
Dim rg As Range
Dim xRg As Range
Set xRg = Selection.Cells
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
For Each rg In xRg
With rg
Select Case .Interior.Color
Case Is = 0 'Black
.Value = 1
Case Is = 255255 'Yellow
.Value = 2
End Select
End With
Next
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
End Sub
This has worked for the cells in my spreadsheet which are filled black: they all now contain the value 1. However, nothing has changed for my cells filled yellow.
I thought that it could be to do with the wrong HEX code, but I have tried 2552550 and ```255255000`` as well. The yellow cells are filled with the yellow from the excel standard colors, as seen below.
You've got the wrong value for yellow; it should be 65535. That can be verified in several ways:
Selecting a yellow-colored cell and entering ? ActiveCell.Interior.Color in the Immediate Window and pressing Enter.
Entering ? vbYellow in the Immediate Window and pressing Enter.
Entering ? RGB(255, 255, 0) in the Immediate Window and pressing Enter.
In your code, you can just use vbBlack and vbYellow instead of 0 and 65535 respectively.
The colours must be specified exactly. Yellow <> Yellow. There are a thousand shade of yellow. The first instance of Application.DisplayAlerts = False in your code is unnecessary. The second one is a mistake.
The code below takes an approach opposite to the one you started out with. It reads the colour set and applies an index number if it's a "known" colour. The advantage of this system is that it's much easier to maintain and expand.
Sub SetValuesBasedOnColour()
Dim Cols As Variant ' array of colours
Dim Idx As Long ' index of Cols
Dim Cell As Range ' loop object
Cols = Array(vbBlack, vbYellow)
For Each Cell In Selection.Cells
With Cell
On Error Resume Next
Idx = WorksheetFunction.Match(.Interior.Color, Cols, 0)
If Err.Number = 0 Then .Value = Idx
End With
Next Cell
End Sub

Loop through selected cells, check for borders and change colour

I am creating a button for a toolbar to change colors from white background, black font, to white font black background within a selected area. (will be used for tables like P&L's, balance sheets etc in accounting).
But I also need some functionality in the button that looks through the cells that are selected, locates any existing borders and turns them white. Perhabs by having a boolean or something checking if the background color is black, and then turning existing borders white. I does not need to make any new borders, only invert the colors of existing ones.
This is what i've already have, but it just makes all borders white:
Dim Background As Boolean
Dim cel As Range
Dim selectedRange As Range
Set selectedRange = Application.Selection
With Selection.Borders
For Each cel In selectedRange.Cells
If cel.Borders(xlEdgeTop).LineStyle <> xlLineStyleNone Then
.Color = RGB(255, 255, 255)
End If
If cel.Borders(xlEdgeBottom).LineStyle <> xlLineStyleNone Then
.Color = RGB(255, 255, 255)
End If
Next cel
End With
Hope you're able to help me out :)
You are applying the color to every border in the Selection.Borders collection because that's the With variable. Just set the color of cel.Borders(xlEdgeTop)
Dim cel As Range
Dim selectedRange As Range
Set selectedRange = Application.Selection
For Each cel In selectedRange.Cells
With cel.Borders
If .Item(xlEdgeTop).LineStyle <> xlLineStyleNone Then
.Item(xlEdgeTop).Color = vbWhite
End If
If .Item(xlEdgeBottom).LineStyle <> xlLineStyleNone Then
.Item(xlEdgeBottom).Color = vbWhite
End If
End With
Next cel
You could also use two With blocks: With cel.Borders(xlEdgeTop) and With cel.Borders(xlEdgeBottom) and then just use .LineStyle and .Color. You could also skip the With block altogether because it really doesn't save much here (cel.Borders -> .Item).

Change Shape Colour when Cell is Clicked

I am looking for some code that will change the colour of a shape when a cell is clicked on.
Example the shape is S_IRL which is Ireland and is located in Cell B22.
What I would like to happen is that if Cell B22 then shape S_IRL changes from Blue to Red. Then if another cell with a country is clicked then the corresponding shape changes to red and the previous returns to it previous colour.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
You can add a new subroutine in the worksheet's code that will fire when the selection changes on the sheet:
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim strShapeName As String 'Variable to hold the shape name
Dim shp As Shape 'Variable to hold a shape object
'Detect if the click was in range A:C
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A:C")) Is Nothing Then
'Boom... set all the shapes to blue
For Each shp In Me.Shapes
If Left(shp.Name, 2) = "S_" Then shp.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 255)
Next shp
'Grab the shape name from Column A
strShapeName = Cells(Target.Row, 1).Value
'Set the color of the shape to red
Shapes(strShapeName).Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0)
End If
End Sub
This will detect if the selection change was to a cell in columns A, B, or C. If it was it will grab the name of the shape from Column A and then set the color of that shape to red.

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