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How to change value based on cell color in Excel?

This article is talking about changing cell value automatically based on its background color in Excel. For example, if cells filling with red background color in selection, then populate these cells with number 1, and for the blue background color cells, fill in number 0.

Change value based on cell color with VBA code


Change value based on cell color with VBA code

You can run the below VBA code to change value based on cell color in Excel. Please do as follows.

1. Select the range that you need to change values based on background color, then press Alt + F11 keys simultaneously to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module, then copy and paste the below VBA code into the Module window.

VBA code: Change value based on cell color in Excel

Sub ChangeValueBasedOnCellColor()
    Dim rg As Range
    Dim xRg As Range
    Set xRg = Selection.Cells
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    For Each rg In xRg
        With rg
            Select Case .Interior.Color
                Case Is = 255 'Red
                    .Value = 1
                Case Is = 15773696 'Blue
                    .Value = 0
            End Select
        End With
    Next
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
End Sub

3. Press the F5 key to run the code, then you can see all red cells in selected range are filled with number 1, and the blue cells are filled with number 0 as below screenshot shown.

 

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Is there a way to do this, but have it automatically go through multiple files?
For context, questionnaires were sent to a couple hundred facilities, their MC answer selected corresponds to a color indicating score (e.g. green is good, red is bad), and change the content of the cell (with a process like in this thread) to something that R or another software could read, and then use that to generate automatic reports. I could go through each of these files with this macro (or a completely different idea), but that would take a long time.
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The code works fine for me, but I would need to rewrite the code to fit colours specific for my document. But I don´t know what code "my colours" have, anyone who know where on can find codes for other colours?
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I came across this lucky strike which was helpful but don't know where to find a full directory!
http://cdn-0.access-excel.tips/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/excel_vbcolor_10.png 
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How do you run it, i run but nothing seems to happen
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You can replace colors to values by simply using Find and Replace function. Go to the format function on the right side of the Find and Replace dialog box and then under "Fill" you can select the color that you have. Then on the "replace with" just write the value you want.
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is it possible to adjust this code based on the cells conditional formatting rule?
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Excel seems to crash whenever I try to run the VBA code. Seems like a bust.
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Good day,
The code works well in my case. Can you tell me your Excel version? Thank you for your comment.
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I'm in the same boat, trying to run this but the code seems to get hung. Excel 2016.
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I'm looking to give a cell a name based on the colour within one worksheet. i.e. if a cell is red then it gets named "name", if it is orange then it gets names "surname" etc.



What code would need to change to have the range as the whole sheet/tab and a name instead of a value?
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What changes to the code would be needed if you wanted this to apply to the text color of a cell, rather than the cell color?
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