While searching the discussion group for a solution to overcome the
conditional formatting limit of 3, I found an entry by Gord Dibben. It is a
source code entry that I was hoping would change the color of the text to the
given value when my VLOOKUP returned certain results.

Specifically I am entering a number and VLOOKUP returns one of twelve
colors, I want the color of the text to match the word that was retrieved.

It does not work as entered in VB as follows:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim Num As Long
Dim rng As Range
Dim vRngInput As Range
Set vRngInput = Intersect(Target, Range("H6"))
If vRngInput Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
On Error GoTo endit
Application.EnableEvents = False
For Each rng In vRngInput
'Determine the color
Select Case UCase(rng.Value)
Case Is = "BLUE": Num = 5 'blue
Case Is = "ORANGE": Num = 45 'orange
Case Is = "GREEN": Num = 10 'green
Case Is = "BROWN": Num = 53 'brown
Case Is = "SLATE": Num = 15 'slate
Case Is = "WHITE": Num = 1 'black
Case Is = "RED": Num = 3 'red
Case Is = "BLACK": Num = 1 'black
Case Is = "YELLOW": Num = 6 'yellow
Case Is = "VIOLET": Num = 54 'violet
Case Is = "ROSE": Num = 38 'rose
Case Is = "AQUA": Num = 42 'aqua
End Select
'Apply the color
rng.Interior.ColorIndex = Num
Next rng
endit:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub