Excel 2007 conditional formatting - how to get cell color?

Question

Let\'s assume i have the following range from (a1:c3)

  A B C
1 -1 1 1
2 -1 0 0
3  0 0 1

Now i have selected the following range, and forma

Answer 1

.Interior.Color returns the "real" color, not the conditionally-formatted color result.

@sss: It's not available via the API.

The best you can do is to test the same conditions you used in the conditional formatting.

To avoid this resulting in duplicate code, I suggest moving your conditional criteria to a UDF. Examples:

Function IsGroup1(ByVal testvalue As Variant) As Boolean
   IsGroup1 = (testvalue < 0)
End Function

Function IsGroup2(ByVal testvalue As Variant) As Boolean
   IsGroup1 = (testvalue = 0)
End Function

Function IsGroup3(ByVal testvalue As Variant) As Boolean
   IsGroup1 = (testvalue > 0)
End Function

Then use these formulas in your Conditional formatting:

=IsGroup1(A1)
=IsGroup2(A1)
=IsGroup3(A1)

Then your code, rather than looking at the color of the cells, looks to see if the condition is met:

If IsGroup1(Range("$A$1").Value) Then MsgBox "I'm red!"