Using VBA to Select and Highlight Excel Rows

Question

How can I tell Excel to highlight rows by their row number. For instance, let's say I wanted row 6, 10, 150, 201 highlighted. Thanks.

Answer 1

As an alternative to Motes' answer, you can use conditional formatting.

Eg: select A1:J500, Conditional formatting >> New rule >> Use a formula...

For the formula enter: =OR(ROW()=6, ROW()=10, ROW()=150, ROW()=201)

Answer 2

Here is another one based on Mote's .EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex

This one doesn't restrict you to enter the row numbers but gives the user the flexibility to choose the rows at runtime.

Option Explicit

Sub Sample()
    Dim Ret As Range

    On Error Resume Next
    Set Ret = Application.InputBox("Please select the rows that you would like to color", "Color Rows", Type:=8)
    On Error GoTo 0

    If Not Ret Is Nothing Then Ret.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = 6
End Sub

FOLLOWUP

Is there a way to write the macro to read the row numbers from a list and highlight the rows?

Yes there is a way. Let's say the list in Cell A1 to A10 then you can use this code

Option Explicit

Sub Sample()
    Dim i As Long, sh As Worksheet

    On Error GoTo Whoa

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

    '~~> Set this to the sheet where the rows need to be colored
    Set sh = Sheets("Sheet2")

    '~~> Change Sheet1 to the sheet which has the list
    With Sheets("Sheet1")
        For i = 1 To 10
            If Not Len(Trim(.Range("A" & i).Value)) = 0 And _
            IsNumeric(.Range("A" & i).Value) Then _
            sh.Rows(.Range("A" & i).Value).Interior.ColorIndex = 3 '<~~ Red
        Next i
    End With

LetsContinue:
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    Exit Sub
Whoa:
    MsgBox Err.Description
    Resume LetsContinue
End Sub

Answer 3

For basic VBA code, you can always start recording a macro, perform the action, stop recording, look at what code was generated, and then clean that up to do what you want. For example, recording the action of highlighting a row (setting the value of Interior.Color) gives you:

Rows("13:13").Select
Range("C13").Activate
With Selection.Interior
    .Pattern = xlSolid
    .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
    .Color = 65535
    .TintAndShade = 0
    .PatternTintAndShade = 0
End With

The selection commands and extraneous Interior properties can be removed giving you:

Rows("13:13").Interior.Color = 65535

Adding in the row multi-select:

Rows("6:6,10:10,150:150,201:201").Interior.Color = 65535

Summary:

• Record macro
• View Excel's version
• Use/Edit what code you need

Answer 4

objWB.Cells(rowNum,201).EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = 6

等等

Answer 5

Update: Didn't realize the date on this, but thought I'd add this in since it was relevant to the chosen answer.

In addition to Siddharth Rout's answer, since I don't have enough rep to comment yet, you can dynamically figure out how many rows there are in your worksheet with these two lines. xlCellTypeConstants could be changed to another XlCellType constant that you need, and the range can always be changed to accommodate to your spreadsheet.

Dim numRows As Integer
numRows = Range("A2", Range("A1048576").End(xlUp)).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants).Cells.Count

Answer 6

Sorry if it is not as concise or elegant as other answers, but it gets the job done. When I was writing code for my own application I needed to loop through my code. Also, instead of highlighting the entire row, I only needed to highlight a portion of the rows.

Sub Highlight()
Dim ThisWB As Workbook
Dim ThisWS As Worksheet
Dim rows(0 To 3) As Integer
Dim test As String

Set ThisWB = ActiveWorkbook
Set ThisWS = ThisWB.Sheets("Sheet1")

rows(0) = 6
rows(1) = 10
rows(2) = 150
rows(3) = 201

For i = 0 To 3
    test = "A" & rows(i) & ":H" & rows(i)
    ThisWS.Range(test).Interior.ColorIndex = 15
Next i

End Sub

Answer 7

You might be able to achieve the same thing using conditional formatting

• put list of values in a column (I use a separate tab and give the list a name)
• under conditional formatting - New Rule - "use a formula to determine with cells to format"
• read this article http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/45670/how-to-highlight-a-row-in-excel-using-conditional-formatting/
• the rule uses vlookup in the formula- =$A2=VLOOKUP($A2,list,1,FALSE)