Change color of text in a cell of excel - excel

Question

I would like to change the color of a text in a cell in MS Excel like the conditioned formatting. I have different text in one cell, e.g. "WUG-FGT" or "INZL-DRE". I would like to format the cells (all cells in my workshhet), that a defined text like "WUG-FGT" appears red and the other text "INZL-DRE" green, but the text is in the same cell. With "sandard" conditioned formatting I only get the backgroud coloured.
A similar questions is this: How can I change color of text in a cell of MS Excel?
But the difference is that I (actually) don't work with programming. That means that I need a more simple or easy solution to implement this in my excel file.
Is this possible? A solution with VBA would also be possible, I know how to implement them.

Answer 1

here example how you can achieve required results:
Sub test()
Dim cl As Range
Dim sVar1$, sVar2$, pos%
sVar1 = "WUG-FGT"
sVar2 = "INZL-DRE"
For Each cl In Selection
If cl.Value2 Like "*" & sVar1 & "*" Then
pos = InStr(1, cl.Value2, sVar1, vbTextCompare)
cl.Characters(pos, Len(sVar1)).Font.Color = vbRed
End If
If cl.Value2 Like "*" & sVar2 & "*" Then
pos = InStr(1, cl.Value2, sVar2, vbTextCompare)
cl.Characters(pos, Len(sVar2)).Font.Color = vbGreen
End If
Next cl
End Sub
test
UPDATE
Is it possible to count how often the word has been detected. Either to write to total amount to a defined cell or what also would be great, to add the number of counts in brackets behind the word with an control variable? So in your example: A2: "WUG-FGT(1)", A4: "WUG-FGT(2)", A5: "WUG-FGT(3)"
Yes, but you should update the cell before colorizing, otherwise whole cell font will be colorized by the first char's color (e.g. cell contains both keywords and first is red, and second is green, after update whole cell font will be red). See updated code and test bellow:
Sub test_upd()
Dim cl As Range, sVar1$, sVar2$, pos%, cnt1%, cnt2%
Dim bVar1 As Boolean, bVar2 As Boolean
sVar1 = "WUG-FGT": cnt1 = 0
sVar2 = "INZL-DRE": cnt2 = 0
For Each cl In Selection
'string value should be updated before colorize
If cl.Value2 Like "*" & sVar1 & "*" Then
bVar1 = True
cnt1 = cnt1 + 1
cl.Value2 = Replace(cl.Value, sVar1, sVar1 & "(" & cnt1 & ")")
End If
If cl.Value2 Like "*" & sVar2 & "*" Then
bVar2 = True
cnt2 = cnt2 + 1
cl.Value2 = Replace(cl.Value, sVar2, sVar2 & "(" & cnt2 & ")")
End If
pos = InStr(1, cl.Value2, sVar1, vbTextCompare)
If bVar1 Then cl.Characters(pos, Len(sVar1)).Font.Color = vbRed
pos = InStr(1, cl.Value2, sVar2, vbTextCompare)
If bVar2 Then cl.Characters(pos, Len(sVar2)).Font.Color = vbGreen
bVar1 = False: bVar2 = False
Next cl
End Sub
test

Answer 2

Change Format of Parts of Values in Cells
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'*******************************************************************************
Sub CFF(Range As Range, SearchString As String, _
Optional ColorIndex As Long = -4105, _
Optional OccurrenceFirst0All1 As Long = 1, _
Optional Case1In0Sensitive As Long = 1)
' ColorIndex
' 3 for Red
' 10 for Green
' OccurrenceFirst0All1
' 0 - Only First Occurrence of SearchString in cell of Range.
' 1 (Default) - All occurrences of SearchString in cell of Range.
' Case1In0Sensitive
' 0 - Case-sensitive i.e. aaa <> AaA <> AAA
' 1 (Default) - Case-INsensitive i.e. aaa = AaA = AAA
Const cBold As Boolean = False ' Enable Bold (True) for ColorIndex <> -4105
Dim i As Long ' Row Counter
Dim j As Long ' Column Counter
Dim rngCell As Range ' Current Cell Range
Dim lngStart As Long ' Current Start Position
Dim lngChars As Long ' Number of characters (Length) of SearchString
' Assign Length of SearchString to variable.
lngChars = Len(SearchString)
' In Range.
With Range
' Loop through rows of Range.
For i = .Row To .Row + .Rows.Count - 1
' Loop through columns of Range.
For j = .Column To .Column + .Columns.Count - 1
' Assign current cell range to variable.
Set rngCell = .Cells(i, j)
' Calculate the position of the first occurrence
' of SearchString in value of current cell range.
lngStart = InStr(1, rngCell, SearchString, Case1In0Sensitive)
If lngStart > 0 Then ' SearchString IS found.
If OccurrenceFirst0All1 = 0 Then ' FIRST occurrence only.
GoSub ChangeFontFormat
Else ' ALL occurrences.
Do
GoSub ChangeFontFormat
lngStart = lngStart + lngChars
lngStart = InStr(lngStart, rngCell, SearchString, _
Case1In0Sensitive)
Loop Until lngStart = 0
End If
'Else ' SearchString NOT found.
End If
Next
Next
End With
Exit Sub
ChangeFontFormat:
' Font Formatting Options
With rngCell.Characters(lngStart, lngChars).Font
' Change font color.
.ColorIndex = ColorIndex
' Enable Bold for ColorIndex <> -4105
If cBold Then
If .ColorIndex = -4105 Then ' -4105 = xlAutomatic
.Bold = False
Else
.Bold = True
End If
End If
End With
Return
End Sub
'*******************************************************************************
Real Used Range (RUR)
'*******************************************************************************
' Purpose: Returns the Real Used Range of a worksheet.
' Returns: Range Object or "Nothing".
'*******************************************************************************
Function RUR(Optional NotActiveSheet As Worksheet) As Range
Dim objWs As Worksheet
If Not NotActiveSheet Is Nothing Then
Set objWs = NotActiveSheet
Else
Set objWs = ActiveSheet
End If
If objWs Is Nothing Then Exit Function
Dim HLP As Range ' Cells Range
Dim FUR As Long ' First Used Row Number
Dim FUC As Long ' First Used Column Number
Dim LUR As Long ' Last Used Row Number
Dim LUC As Long ' Last Used Column Number
With objWs.Cells
Set HLP = .Cells(.Cells.Count)
Set RUR = .Find("*", HLP, xlFormulas, xlWhole, xlByRows)
If Not RUR Is Nothing Then
FUR = RUR.Row
FUC = .Find("*", HLP, , , xlByColumns).Column
LUR = .Find("*", , , , xlByRows, xlPrevious).Row
LUC = .Find("*", , , , xlByColumns, xlPrevious).Column
Set RUR = .Cells(FUR, FUC) _
.Resize(LUR - FUR + 1, LUC - FUC + 1)
End If
End With
End Function
'*******************************************************************************
Usage
The following code if used with the Change1Reset0 argument set to 1, will change the format in each occurrence of the desired strings in a case-INsensitive search.
'*******************************************************************************
Sub ChangeStringFormat(Optional Change1Reset0 As Long = 0)
Const cSheet As Variant = "Sheet1"
Const cStringList As String = "WUG-FGT,INZL-DRE"
Const cColorIndexList As String = "3,10" ' 3-Red, 10-Green
' Note: More strings can be added to cStringList but then there have to be
' added more ColorIndex values to cColorIndexList i.e. the number of
' elements in cStringList has to be equal to the number of elements
' in cColorIndexList.
Dim rng As Range ' Range
Dim vntS As Variant ' String Array
Dim vntC As Variant ' Color IndexArray
Dim i As Long ' Array Elements Counter
Set rng = RUR(ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(cSheet))
If Not rng Is Nothing Then
vntS = Split(cStringList, ",")
If Change1Reset0 = 1 Then
vntC = Split(cColorIndexList, ",")
' Loop through elements of String (ColorIndex) Array
For i = 0 To UBound(vntS)
' Change Font Format.
CFF rng, CStr(Trim(vntS(i))), CLng(Trim(vntC(i)))
Next
Else
For i = 0 To UBound(vntS)
' Reset Font Format.
CFF rng, CStr(Trim(vntS(i)))
Next
End If
End If
End Sub
'*******************************************************************************
The previous codes should all be in a standard module e.g. Module1.
CommandButtons
The following code should be in the sheet window where the commandbuttons are created, e.g. Sheet1.
Option Explicit
Private Sub cmdChange_Click()
ChangeStringFormat 1
End Sub
Private Sub cmdReset_Click()
ChangeStringFormat ' or ChangeStringFormat 0
End Sub

Answer 3

Try:
Option Explicit
Sub test()
Dim rng As Range, cell As Range
Dim StartPosWUG As Long, StartPosINL As Long
With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
Set rng = .UsedRange
For Each cell In rng
StartPosWUG = InStr(1, cell, "WUG-FGT")
StartPosINL = InStr(1, cell, "INZL-DRE")
If StartPosWUG > 0 Then
With cell.Characters(Start:=StartPosWUG, Length:=Len("WUG-FGT")).Font
.Color = vbRed
End With
End If
If StartPosINL > 0 Then
With cell.Characters(Start:=StartPosINL, Length:=Len("INZL-DRE")).Font
.Color = vbGreen
End With
End If
Next
End With
End Sub