Hi Peter,
In response to your question "Curiosity - different to what?" - check out
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/colors.htm.

It talks about the DOS assignments of 16 colors, etc.

Rita

"Peter T" wrote:

Glad you got it all sorted.

BTW, I used 25.

That's the same colour (in a default palette) as #11, as I guessed.
#25 is a chart colour, absolutely no problem to apply that but don't be
surprised if you "return" in code the color-index of the same colour that
you've applied manually from the palette as #11. As I said before, #17 to
#32 are the chart colours not visible in the dropdown palette, ten of which
are duplicates of the other forty.

I never realized that the color palette numbers for Excel are different,
hence 2 being white when I expected it to be navy

Curiosity - different to what?

Regards,
Peter T


Thanks so much to all who responed!
I never realized that the color palette numbers for Excel are different,
hence 2 being white when I expected it to be navy. BTW, I used 25.
All's well that ends well...

"Peter T" wrote:


Another issue I have is trying to set a different cell to a certain
color.
It's just not working. Here's the code (lLastColumn has a value of
33):
'*** Extend the Navy Blue color in row 2, last column created
wshFIC.Cells(2, lLastColumn).Select
Selection.Interior.ColorIndex = 2

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!


Hi Rita,

You have answers for your Font issue. And on to your blues.

Are you trying to fill with a dark blue, if so Colorindex 2 is white,
assuming you have a default / uncustomized palette.

Not sure what dark blue you want (11 ?) so pick from this:

Sub clrIndexes()
For i = 1 To 56
Cells(i, 1).Interior.ColorIndex = i
Cells(i, 2).Value = i
Next
End Sub

Index's 17 - 32 are the chart colours which you won't see on the drop
down
palette of 40.

Regards,
Peter T