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Workbook.Colors Property

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Excel Developer Reference

Returns or sets colors in the palette for the workbook. The palette has 56 entries, each represented by an RGB value. Read/write Variant.

Syntax

expression.Colors(Index)

expression   A variable that represents a Workbook object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
Index Optional Variant The color number (from 1 to 56). If this argument isn’t specified, this method returns an array that contains all 56 of the colors in the palette.

Example

This example sets the color palette for the active workbook to be the same as the palette for Book2.xls.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  ActiveWorkbook.Colors = Workbooks("BOOK2.XLS").Colors

This example sets color five in the color palette for the active workbook.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  ActiveWorkbook.Colors(5) = RGB(255, 0, 0)

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