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FormatCondition Object

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Excel Developer Reference

Represents a conditional format.

Remarks

The FormatCondition object is a member of the FormatConditions collection. The FormatConditions collection can now contain more than three conditional formats for a given range.

Use the Add method to create a new conditional format. If a range has mulitple formats, you can use the Modify method to change one of the formats, or you can use the Delete method to delete a format and then use the Add method to create a new format.

Use the Font, Borders, and Interior properties of the FormatCondition object to control the appearance of formatted cells. Some properties of these objects aren’t supported by the conditional format object model. Some of the properties that can be used with conditional formatting are listed in the following table.

Object Properties
Font Bold

Color

ColorIndex

FontStyle

Italic

Strikethrough

Underline

The accounting underline styles cannot be used.
Border Bottom

Color

Left

Right

Style

The following border styles can be used (all others aren’t supported): xlNone, xlSolid, xlDash, xlDot, xlDashDot, xlDashDotDot, xlGray50, xlGray75, and xlGray25.

Top

Weight

The following border weights can be used (all others aren’t supported): xlWeightHairline and xlWeightThin.
Interior Color

ColorIndex

Pattern

PatternColorIndex

Example

Use FormatConditions(

index

), where

index

is the index number of the conditional format, to return a FormatCondition object. The following example sets format properties for an existing conditional format for cells E1:E10.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With Worksheets(1).Range("e1:e10").FormatConditions(1)
    With .Borders
        .LineStyle = xlContinuous
        .Weight = xlThin
        .ColorIndex = 6
    End With
    With .Font
        .Bold = True
        .ColorIndex = 3
    End With
End With

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