Defining chart colours by cell entries

**banana-pumpkin** · 08-25-2010, 05:51 AM

I have some VBA code that I am using to change the background colour of cells in my column A using values in columns B,C,D to define the RGB components of the colour.
e.g. Red | 255 | 0 | 0 turns the first cell's background to red.

I've created a column chart using the column A values as x-values and some other data in column E as y-values. What I want is to make the fill colour of the columns in the chart the same as the background colour of the cells in the worksheet.

Please see attached file - thanks in advance for your help

**Andy Pope** · 08-25-2010, 08:08 AM

It could be that using dummy series and formula is a better approach. Hard to tell with such a contrived example and no explanation of actual usage.

Anyway here is some code.

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I have used a very quick and dirty method of getting the range used for axis labels. In real-world usage you may need something more robust to extract the parameter.

**banana-pumpkin** · 08-25-2010, 08:24 AM

Thanks, Andy - I'll have a play with that and see if I can get it to work.

It's not actually a contrived example; I work for a paint company so the real usage is exactly the same, just with more colours and "Chart Value" replaced with our profit figures.