Clearing the interior color properly?
 

I have a function that rolls over a column in a sheet and fills in the
interior color to draw the eye to problems. It's got a lot of entries,
but they basically look like...

src = ast.Range("BV" & i)
Select Case src
Case 1, 2, 3, 11, 18HPL
.Interior.Color = ourPurple
.ClearComments

[ lots more Cases ]

Case Else
.Interior.Color = -1
.ClearComments
end select


The Case Else is there to wipe out any color that may have been put
into that cell on a previous run. But when I set the color to -1, the
border disappears.

1) why does the border disappear when I set the interior?
2) is there some other way to clear out the interior that I should use
instead?

Thanks!

Maury


What I'm really trying to do here is simply remove any color that
might have been there in the past.

Clearing the interior color properly?
 

recording a macro & clearing the color i get:

Selection.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone

try that.
hope it helps
:)
susan


On Jun 13, 10:30*am, Maury Markowitz
wrote:
I have a function that rolls over a column in a sheet and fills in the
interior color to draw the eye to problems. It's got a lot of entries,
but they basically look like...

* * * * src = ast.Range("BV" & i)
* * * * * * Select Case src
* * * * * * * Case 1, 2, 3, 11, 18HPL
* * * * * * * * .Interior.Color = ourPurple
* * * * * * * * .ClearComments

[ lots more Cases ]

* * * * * * * *Case Else
* * * * * * * * .Interior.Color = -1
* * * * * * * * .ClearComments
* * * * *end select

The Case Else is there to wipe out any color that may have been put
into that cell on a previous run. But when I set the color to -1, the
border disappears.

1) why does the border disappear when I set the interior?
2) is there some other way to clear out the interior that I should use
instead?

Thanks!

Maury

What I'm really trying to do here is simply remove any color that
might have been there in the past.

Clearing the interior color properly?
 

Thanks!

Clearing the interior color properly?
 

Whoa, ok that did not work. When I use xlNone, the cells turn cyan!

Any ideas anyone?

Maury

Clearing the interior color properly?
 

wow. worked for me in xl2000.
i assume you copied it directly & used ColorIndex instead of just
Color?
i don't have any other ideas, sorry
susan


On Jun 13, 11:06*am, Maury Markowitz
wrote:
Whoa, ok that did not work. When I use xlNone, the cells turn cyan!

Any ideas anyone?

Maury

Clearing the interior color properly?
 

Do you have any conditional formating that would turn the interior color on?



"Maury Markowitz" wrote:

Whoa, ok that did not work. When I use xlNone, the cells turn cyan!

Any ideas anyone?

Maury

Clearing the interior color properly?
 

On Jun 13, 11:10*am, Susan wrote:
wow. *worked for me in xl2000.
i assume you copied it directly & used ColorIndex instead of just
Color?

No, of course not, like a noob I simply saw "color" and assumed...

It's working great now, thanks!

Maury