How to concatenate cell columns and keep text color in Excel?
As we all known, while concatenating or combining cell columns into one column, the cell formatting (such as text font color, number formatting, etc) will be lost. This article, I will introduce some tricks to combine the cell columns into one and keep the text color as easily as possible in Excel.
Concatenate cell columns and keep text font color with VBA code
Concatenate cell columns and keep text font color with VBA code
To finish this task in Excel, the following VBA code may do you a favor, please do as this:
1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
VBA code: concatenate cell columns and keep text color:
Sub MergeFormatCell()
'Updateby Extendoffice
Dim xSRg As Range
Dim xDRg As Range
Dim xRgEachRow As Range
Dim xRgEach As Range
Dim xRgVal As String
Dim I As Integer
Dim xRgLen As Integer
Dim xSRgRows As Integer
Dim xAddress As String
On Error Resume Next
xAddress = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Address
Set xSRg = Application.InputBox("Please select cell columns to concatenate:", "KuTools For Excel", xAddress, , , , , 8)
If xSRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
xSRgRows = xSRg.Rows.Count
Set xDRg = Application.InputBox("Please select cells to output the result:", "KuTools For Excel", , , , , , 8)
If xDRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Set xDRg = xDRg(1)
For I = 1 To xSRgRows
xRgLen = 1
With xDRg.Offset(I - 1)
.Value = vbNullString
.ClearFormats
Set xRgEachRow = xSRg(1).Offset(I - 1).Resize(1, xSRg.Columns.Count)
For Each xRgEach In xRgEachRow
.Value = .Value & Trim(xRgEach.Value) & " "
Next
For Each xRgEach In xRgEachRow
xRgVal = xRgEach.Value
With .Characters(xRgLen, Len(Trim(xRgVal))).Font
.Name = xRgEach.Font.Name
.FontStyle = xRgEach.Font.FontStyle
.Size = xRgEach.Font.Size
.Strikethrough = xRgEach.Font.Strikethrough
.Superscript = xRgEach.Font.Superscript
.Subscript = xRgEach.Font.Subscript
.OutlineFont = xRgEach.Font.OutlineFont
.Shadow = xRgEach.Font.Shadow
.Underline = xRgEach.Font.Underline
.ColorIndex = xRgEach.Font.ColorIndex
End With
xRgLen = xRgLen + Len(Trim(xRgVal)) + 1
Next
End With
Next I
End Sub
3. Then press F5 key to run this code, and a prompt box is popped out to remind you to select the data range you want to combine with text color, see screenshot:
4. And then click OK, another dialog box is appeared, please select the cells where you want to output the combined results, see screenshot:
5. Then click OK button, the columns have been concatenated without losing the text color as following screenshot shown:
Note: If the data which needed to be combine includes numbers, then macro code cannot work correctly.
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