Visual Color Picker

When building Excel-based tools and applications it is often useful for the user to select a color. Whilst it is possible to build a custom UserForm, Excel’s native Color window is more than suitable for most circumstances.Excel’s native color picker:To show the Color window, you might think we could use the Macro Recorder, but it doesn’t quite give us what we need. The recorded code will show the colors selected, but not the action of displaying the Colors window.Recorded macro code – color picker will not display: With Selection.Interior.Pattern = xlSolid.PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic.Color = 3166746.TintAndShade = 0.PatternTintAndShade = 0End WithThis post provides the VBA code required to call the Colors window and apply the user’s selection. Using the Edit Color Dialog BoxThe VBA code to call the Color window is straightforward.Each window in Excel has it’s own Dialog setting which can be called. Typing Application.Dialogs( into the Visual Basic Editor will display the list of available dialog boxes.Any of these windows can be called.

The code below will open the Add-In Manager window. Application.Dialogs(xlDialogAddinManager).ShowTo call the Color Window we would reference xlDialogEditColor instead of xlDialogAddinManager.The xlDialogEditColor option does require one argument. There are 56 color positions available in Excel; when calling the Color window it is necessary to state the which color position to be edited.

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The code below shows how to edit the twelfth color position. Application.Dialogs(xlDialogEditColor).Show (12)Using a position number higher than 56 will result in an error:It is acceptable to provide the single color position argument, but it may be better to set the default color value when the window opens.

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogEditColor).Show 1, 26, 82, 48The code above sets color position 1 to the color with RGB value of. Red: 26.

Green: 82. Blue: 48That color is a dark green (just in case you were wondering).The Color window has two tabs, Standard and Custom (see the images at the top of this article). If the RGB color code matches a color from the Standard tab the Standard tab will display, else the Custom tab will display.

Contents.Purpose A color picker is used to select and adjust color values. In and, users typically choose colors via an interface with a visual representation of a color—organized with quasi-perceptually-relevant, and dimensions – instead of keying in text values. Because color appearance depends on comparison of neighboring colors (see ), many interfaces attempt to clarify the relationships between colors.Interface Color tools can vary in their interface. Some may use sliders, buttons, text boxes for color values,.

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Often a two dimensional square is used to create a range of color values (such as lightness and saturation) that can be clicked on or selected in some other manner. Drag and drop, color droppers, and various other forms of interfaces are commonly used as well.Usually color values are also displayed numerically, so they can be precisely remembered and keyed-in later, such three values of 0-255 representing red, green, and blue, respectively.See also.Notes.