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    Restrict Which Cell Fill Colours Can Be Used

    Hello everyone,

    I am looking for a VBA script to restrict which cell fill colours can be used. For example only 6 (pre-chosen) colours are available to the user on 1 particular workbook across all worksheets.

    As I am currently using a custom VBA formula that counts cell fill colours and users keep using different shades of said colours and therefore the formula does not count all the relevant cells. Custom formula below...




    Function CountColorIf(rSample As Range, rArea As Range) As Long

    Application.Volatile

    Dim rAreaCell As Range
    Dim lMatchColor As Long
    Dim lCounter As Long

    lMatchColor = rSample.Interior.Color
    For Each rAreaCell In rArea
    If rAreaCell.Interior.Color = lMatchColor Then
    lCounter = lCounter + 1
    End If
    Next rAreaCell
    CountColorIf = lCounter

    End Function

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    Re: Restrict Which Cell Fill Colours Can Be Used

    Hi there,

    This seems like an interesting (if unusual) requirement!

    After reading quickly through the information on this page:


    it seems that you might be able to use this approach to specify duplicate colour values for several of the 56 ColorIndex Colours available to the User, and thereby make only six unique colours available.


    Hope this is of some help/interest.

    Regards,

    Greg M

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