ColorIndex Property

Applies To

Border object, Font object, Interior object.

Description

Returns or sets the color of the border or interior, as shown in the following table. The color is specified as an index value into the current color palette, or as one of the following XlColorIndex constants: xlColorIndexAutomatic or xlColorIndexNone. Read/write Variant.

Object	Description

Border	The color of the border.
Interior	The color of the interior fill. Set ColorIndex to xlColorIndexNone to specify that you don't want an interior fill. Set ColorIndex to xlColorIndexAutomatic to specify the automatic fill (for drawing objects).

Remarks

This property specifies a color as an index into the color palette. The following table shows the color-index values in the default color palette.

Color	Index value

Aqua	8, 28, 33, 34, 42
Black	1, 51, 52
Blue	5, 32, 41, 49
Fuchsia	7, 26
Gray	16, 46, 47, 48, 56
Green	10, 43
Lime	4
Maroon	9, 30, 53
Navy	11, 25, 55
Olive	12, 44, 45
Purple	13, 18, 21, 29, 54
Red	3
Silver	15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39
Teal	14, 23, 31, 50
White	2, 19, 40
Yellow	6, 27

See Also

Color property, PatternColor property.

Example

The following examples assume that you're using the default color palette.

This example sets the color of the major gridlines for the value axis.

With myChart.Axes(xlValue)
    If .HasMajorGridlines Then
        .MajorGridlines.Border.ColorIndex = 5   ' Set color to blue.
    End If
End With

This example sets the color of the chart area interior to red and sets the border color to blue.

With myChart.ChartArea
    .Interior.ColorIndex = 3
    .Border.ColorIndex = 5
End With