User Guide Tutorials VB6 tutorials Tutorial 14: How to create conditional formatting in VB6 How to create conditional formatting in VB6
EasyXLS Excel library can be used to export Excel files in VB6. The library is a COM+ component that works without MS Excel installed.
Step 1: Download and install EasyXLS Excel Library for COM+ To download the trial version of EasyXLS Excel Library, press the below button:
If you already own a license key, you may login and download EasyXLS from your account.
Step 2: Verify if EasyXLS is registered Check if EasyXLS component is present in Component Services.
Step 3: Run VB6 code that creates conditional formatting in Excel cells Execute the following VB6 code that exports an Excel file and sets conditional formatting to a range. The first step is to set the range where the conditional formatting will be applied, then set the formatting options.
VERSION 5.00
Begin VB.Form Form1
Caption = "Form1"
ClientHeight = 4590
ClientLeft = 60
ClientTop = 345
ClientWidth = 6885
LinkTopic = "Form1"
ScaleHeight = 4590
ScaleWidth = 6885
StartUpPosition = 3
Begin VB.Label Label1
AutoSize = -1
Height = 100
Left = 120
TabIndex = 0
Top = 120
Width = 100
End
End
Attribute VB_Name = "Form1"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Private Sub Form_Load()
ConditionalFormatting .Initialize
DataType .Initialize
Color .Initialize
Me.Label1.Caption = "Tutorial 14" & vbCrLf & "-----------------" & vbCrLf
Set workbook = CreateObject("EasyXLS.ExcelDocument" )
workbook.easy_addWorksheet_2 ("Sheet1" )
Set xlsTab = workbook.easy_getSheet("Sheet1" )
Set xlsTable = xlsTab.easy_getExcelTable()
For i = 0 To 5
For j = 0 To 3
If ((i < 2) And (j < 2)) Then
xlsTable.easy_getCell(i, j).setValue ("12" )
Else
If ((j = 2) And (i < 2)) Then
xlsTable.easy_getCell(i, j).setValue ("1000" )
Else
xlsTable.easy_getCell(i, j).setValue ("9" )
End If
End If
xlsTable.easy_getCell(i, j).setDataType (DataType.DATATYPE_NUMERIC)
Next
Next
xlsTab.easy_addConditionalFormatting_5 "A1:C3" , _
ConditionalFormatting.CONDITIONALFORMATTING_OPERATOR_BETWEEN, _
"=9" , "=11" , True , True , CLng(Color.COLOR_RED)
xlsTab.easy_addConditionalFormatting_9 "A6:C6" , _
ConditionalFormatting.CONDITIONALFORMATTING_OPERATOR_BETWEEN, _
"=COS(PI())+2" , "" , CLng(Color.COLOR_BISQUE)
xlsTab.easy_getConditionalFormattingAt_2("A6:C6" ).getConditionAt(0).setConditionType ( _
ConditionalFormatting.CONDITIONALFORMATTING_CONDITIONAL_FORMATTING_TYPE_EVALUATE_FORMULA)
Me.Label1.Caption = Me.Label1.Caption & vbCrLf & _
"Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial14 - conditional formatting in Excel.xlsx"
workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile ("C:\Samples\Tutorial14 - conditional formatting in Excel.xlsx" )
If workbook.easy_getError() = "" Then
Me.Label1.Caption = Me.Label1.Caption & vbCrLf & "File successfully created."
Else
Me.Label1.Caption = Me.Label1.Caption & vbCrLf & "Error: " & workbook.easy_getError()
End If
workbook.Dispose
End Sub
Overloaded methods For methods with same name but different parameters, only the first method overload retains the original name. Subsequent overloads are uniquely renamed by appending to the method name '_2', '_3', etc (method, method_2, method_3), an integer that corresponds to the order of declaration that can be found in EasyXLS.h, a file that comes with EasyXLS installation.