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Asked: 2026-05-11T06:50:09+00:00

In Excel 2003, when I change Series.Interior.ColorIndex to a value I need, it has

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In Excel 2003, when I change Series.Interior.ColorIndex to a value I need, it has no effect. It has an effect only when I first manually change color and then run the macro. Apparently this triggers some update mechanism. Does anyone have an explanation for this? Is there a way to somehow trigger this in the chart?.. I.e. make sure that the color changes take effect.

In addition, when I step through the code and watch ColorIndex, it does not change even after value is assigned. Is this one of the many bugs in Excel?

The code looks like this:

Sub DoStuff()     Dim j As Long     For j = 1 To ActiveChart.SeriesCollection.Count         With ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(j)            Select Case ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(j).Name                Case 'Milk'                   .Interior.ColorIndex = 4                Case 'Cookies'                   .Interior.ColorIndex = 28                Case 'Honey'                   .Interior.ColorIndex = 26             End Select         End With     Next j End Sub

Edit: I am working with bar chart.

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  1. Try setting the border as well.

    .Interior.ColorIndex = 4 .Border.ColorIndex = 4 .Border.Weight = xlMedium
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