Selection.Interior.Color = RGB(20,145,250)
will set the active cell's background to the specified RGB
value

Not quite. Excel is limited to a color pallet of 56 colors
(although you can choose any RGB color for inclusion in the
pallet). When you specify a value to the Color property, Excel
picks the closest color in its pallet to the one specified. You
are not guaranteed a match.

If you need an exact RGB color, you must first assign it to a
location in the pallet, and then use the ColorIndex to grab that
color. E.g.,

ThisWorkbook.Colors(56) = RGB(20,145,250)
Selection.Interior.ColorIndex = 56

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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com



"Alvin" wrote in message
...
here's an example

Selection.Interior.Color = RGB(20,145,250)
will set the active cell's background to the specified RGB
value

"benny" wrote:

I am attempting to write some code that will in excel fill a
cell with a user
created colour using RGB values.

basically the user will enter in the red, green and blue
values in 3
seperate cells then i want to know how to write some code to
get those RGB
values into a fill pattern and fill a cell with it?

example - r=20, g=145, b=250; then the cell will be populated
with the
colour those RGB values create.

any one out there with a solution for me? if its possible i
would prefer to
want some code i can simply type into a cell, if its avoidable
i dont want to
use macros.