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AboveAverage Object

Excel Developer Reference

Represents an above average visual of a conditional formatting rule. Applying a color or fill to a range or selection to help you see the value of a cells relative to other cells.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Excel 2007

Remarks

All conditional formatting objects are contained within a FormatConditions collection object, which is a child of a Range collection. You can create an above average formatting rule by using either the Add or AddAboveAverage method of the FormatConditions collection.

Example
The following example builds a dynamic data set and applies color to the above average values through conditional formatting rules.

Visual Basic for Applications
  Sub AboveAverageCF()

' Building data for Melanie Range("A1").Value = "Name" Range("B1").Value = "Number" Range("A2").Value = "Melanie-1" Range("A2").AutoFill Destination:=Range("A2:A26"), Type:=xlFillDefault Range("B2:B26").FormulaArray = "=INT(RAND()*101)" Range("B2:B26").Select

' Applying Conditional Formatting to items above the average. Should appear green fill and dark green font. Selection.FormatConditions.AddAboveAverage Selection.FormatConditions(Selection.FormatConditions.Count).SetFirstPriority Selection.FormatConditions(1).AboveBelow = xlAboveAverage With Selection.FormatConditions(1).Font .Color = -16752384 .TintAndShade = 0 End With With Selection.FormatConditions(1).Interior .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic .Color = 13561798 .TintAndShade = 0 End With MsgBox "Added an Above Average Conditional Format to Melanie's data. Press F9 to update values.", vbInformation

End Sub

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