Assuming an option button from the Control Toolbox Toolbar.

It sounds like you want the optionbutton to have the same backcolor as the
cell under it. If so, I believe this is what you want:

Sub Tester9()
Dim oOpBtn As MSForms.OptionButton
Dim lngColor as Long
Dim oleObj as OleObject
For Each oleObj In ActiveSheet.OLEObjects
If TypeOf oleObj.Object Is MSForms.OptionButton Then
lngColor = oleObj.TopLeftCell.Interior.Color
Set oOpBtn = oleObj.Object
oOpBtn.BackColor = lngColor
End If
Next
End Sub


The OleObject is the container of the OptionButton, and the Object property
of the OleObject is the OptionButton itself. It is the optionbutton that
has the backcolor property. I declared oOpBtn as MSForms.OptionButton and
assigned it for clarity, but you can work directly with (in this case)
oleObj.Object.Backcolor if you wish.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

S.S.Sander wrote in message
...
Since i have just discovered the VBA-part of my office
2000 i have a - presumably - very simple Q.

I wish to create a procedure that can change the colour of
all the controls on a particular worksheet in a workbook.

i.e. I have 6 optionbuttons and two checkboxes on a sheet
I wish to assign a certain color to.
I know how to extract the colour from a cell, assign it to
a long-variable... But then....
My problem is to cycle through all the controls on a given
sheet, assign the variable to the individual control(Since
it seem as the OLEObjects dont have the .Backcolor
property)

Sorry for this obviously simple Q, but i have to start
somewhere.... (And for me it isn´t simple- on the contrary)