> -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: automatic announcement of Excel cell background color > > So you'd want to write script that would get the active cell > and speak > the ColorIndex property of the cell's Interior property. The > only issue > with this is that you'll only get back a number indicating a color, > rather than a human readable string.
Aaron, Just an FYI, I don't know about Excel, but Word has defined color constants for each of it's possible colors, with names which are descriptive (such as wdYellow). It seems likely Excel would also. Chip
