-4142 is the value assigned to at least two Excel constants...
xlNone and xlColorIndexNone

Colors provided by Conditional formatting operate by their own rules.
They cannot be accessed using "colorindex".
See the Chip Pearson discussion here...
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CFColors.htm
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"Farrar Tweety"
wrote in message
Windows XP Pro SP2
Excel 2002 SP3

Seems that cells that are conditionally formatted don't return an expected
Interior.ColorIndex value.
I am using this bit of code:

Set rng1 = Range("B20:P20")
For Each c1 In rng1.Cells
v1 = c1.Value
If v1 < "" Then
Set rng2 = Range(c1.Offset(3, 0), c1.Offset(32770, 0))
rng2.FormatConditions.Add xlCellValue, xlEqual, v1
rng2.FormatConditions(1).Interior.ColorIndex = 4
rng2.FormatConditions.Add xlCellValue, xlNotEqual, v1
rng2.FormatConditions(2).Interior.ColorIndex = 46
End If
Next c1

This works fine and colors the interiors as I would expect. However, if I
add this after the last line above

MsgBox Range("G23").Interior.ColorIndex 'G23 is colored red (46)

the message box says -4142.

What's up with that?

Any help greatly appreciated.

-gk-

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