2.2.3.41 wcolor


Contents

Menu Information

Worksheet: Conditional Formatting: Highlight

Brief Information

Apply conditional formatting to worksheet cells using custom rules.

Command Line Usage

1. wcolor rng:=[Book1]Sheet1! name:="C1R1-C0R0" trrule.cond1:=4 trrule.val11:=30;

2. wcolor rng:=[Book1]Sheet1! name:="C1R1-C0R0" trrule.cond1:=1 trrule.val11:=10 trrule.join:=1 trrule.cond2:=3 trrule.val21:=5 trrule.fill:=18 trrule.font:=4;

X-Function Execution Options

Please refer to this page for additional option switches when accessing the x-function from script.

Variables

Display
Name 		Variable
Name 		I/O
and
Type 		Default
Value 		Description
Range rng

Input

Range

<active> Specify range of the cells in the worksheet to apply conditional formatting. Note: if you want to applly the conditional formatting according to a set of text values, please set this column as categorical first (right click on this column and select Set as Categorical).
Name name

Input

string

Specify the name for the selected range.
Apply Coloring to Sheet extend

Input

int

0 Specify whether to color the whole sheet range by the specifed condition. If selected, the applied color will extend from the input range to the whole row.
Wcolor extend.png
Rule trrule

Input

TreeNode

<unassigned> Set the condition and color options. See more details in this page.

Description

Use this X-Function to color cells that the value matchs the condition setting

Examples

Example 1: To color the cells containing the specified text.

  1. Create a new workbook and import the file automobile2.dat in the <Origin Program Folder>\Samples\Statistics folder.
  2. Type the following script in the Script Window and press Enter key.
wcolor rng:=[automobile2]automobile2!3 name:="C3R1-C3R0" trrule.cond1:=7 trrule.text1:=Japan;

Then the cells with text Japan will be colored in the third column.

Example 2: To color the rows containing male info.

  1. Create a new workbook and select Data: Connect to File: Text/CSV to import the file <Origin Program Folder>\Samples\Graphing\Categorical Data.dat with default settings.
  2. Select Worksheet: Conditional Formatting: Highlight to open wcolor dialog. Specify options like image below. Click OK.
    Wcolor example 2.png

    Or,
    Type the following script in the Script Window and press Enter key. 
    wcolor rng:=[Book1]"Categorical Data"!C"Gender" name:="C3R1-C3R0" extend:=1 trrule.cond1:=8 trrule.custom1:="x == "Male"" trrule.fill:=29219323 trrule.font:=-9;

Then rows containing male information will be highlight with specified background color.

Related X-Functions

wheatmap, wcolordup

Keywords:cell coloring