How to: Apply Color to Excel Ranges

Applies to
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The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office.

Project type

Microsoft Office version

To apply a color to text within a range of cells, use a NamedRange control or a native Excel range object.

Using a NamedRange Control

This example is for document-level customizations.

Create a NamedRange control at cell A1.

Dim rng As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange = _
    Me.Controls.AddNamedRange(Me.Range("A1"), "NamedRange1")

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.NamedRange rng =
    this.Controls.AddNamedRange(this.Range["A1", missing], "NamedRange1");

Set the color of the text in the NamedRange control.

rng.Font.Color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToOle(System.Drawing.Color.Red)

rng.Font.Color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToOle(System.Drawing.Color.Red);

Create a range at cell A1 and then set the color of the text.

Dim rng2 As Excel.Range = Me.Application.Range("A1")
rng2.Font.Color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToOle(System.Drawing.Color.Red)

Excel.Range rng2 = this.Application.get_Range("A1", missing);
rng2.Font.Color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToOle(System.Drawing.Color.Red);