ColorScale Interface

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

Assembly:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll

Represents a color scale conditional formatting rule.

public interface class ColorScale

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Guid("00024493-0000-0000-C000-000000000046")]
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.InterfaceType(2)]
public interface ColorScale

Public Interface ColorScale

Attributes

GuidAttribute InterfaceTypeAttribute

Examples

The following code example creates a range of numbers and then applies a two-color scale conditional formatting rule to that range. The color for the minimum threshold is then assigned to red and the maximum threshold to blue.

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    Dim cfColorScale As </span>
<i>ColorScale</i>
<span class="label">'Fill cells with sample data from 1 to 10     With ActiveSheet         .Range("C1") = 1         .Range("C2") = 2         .Range("C1:C2").AutoFill Destination:=Range("C1:C10")     End With          Range("C1:C10").Select          'Create a two-color ColorScale object for the created sample data range     Set cfColorScale = Selection.FormatConditions.AddColorScale(ColorScaleType:=2)          'Set the minimum threshold to red and maximum threshold to blue     cfColorScale.ColorScaleCriteria(1).FormatColor.Color = RGB(255, 0, 0)     cfColorScale.ColorScaleCriteria(2).FormatColor.Color = RGB(0, 0, 255)          End Sub</span>

Remarks

All conditional formatting objects are contained within a FormatConditions collection object, which is a child of a Range collection. You can create a color scale formatting rule by using either the Add(XlFormatConditionType, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object) or AddColorScale(Int32) method of the FormatConditions collection.

Color scales are visual guides that help you understand data distribution and variation. You can apply either a two-color or a three-color scale to a range of data, data in a table, or data in a PivotTable report. For a two-color scale conditional format, you assign the value, type, and color to the minimum and maximum thresholds of a range. A three-color scale also has a midpoint threshold.

Each of these thresholds is determined by setting the properties of the ColorScaleCriteria object. The ColorScaleCriteria object, which is a child of the ColorScale object, is a collection of all of the ColorScaleCriterion objects for the color scale.

Properties

Application	When used without an object qualifier, this property returns an _Application object that represents the Microsoft Office Excel application. When used with an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object. Read-only.
AppliesTo	Returns a Range object specifying the cell range to which the formatting rule is applied.
ColorScaleCriteria	Returns a ColorScaleCriteria object, which is a collection of individual ColorScaleCriterion objects. The ColorScaleCriterion object specifies the type, value, and color of threshold criteria used in the color scale conditional format. Read-only.
Creator	Returns a constant in the XlCreator enumeration that indicates the application in which this object was created. Read-only.
Formula	Returns or sets a String representing a formula that determines the values to which the icon set will be applied.
Parent	Returns the parent object for the specified object. Read-only.
Priority	Returns or sets the priority value of the conditional formatting rule. The priority determines the order of evaluation when multiple conditional formatting rules exist in a worksheet.
PTCondition	Returns a Boolean value indicating if the conditional format is being applied to a PivotTable chart. Read-only.
ScopeType	Returns or sets one of the constants of the XlPivotConditionScope enumeration, which determines the scope of the conditional format when it is applied to a PivotTable chart.
StopIfTrue	Returns or sets a Boolean value that determines if additional formatting rules on the cell should be evaluated if the current rule evaluates to True.
Type	Returns one of the constants of the XlFormatConditionType enumeration, which specifies the type of conditional format. Read-only.

Methods

Delete()	Deletes the specified conditional formatting rule object.
ModifyAppliesToRange(Range)	Sets the cell range to which this formatting rule applies.
SetFirstPriority()	Sets the priority value for this conditional formatting rule to "1" so that it will be evaluated before all other rules on the worksheet.
SetLastPriority()	Sets the evaluation order for this conditional formatting rule so it is evaluated after all other rules on the worksheet.