Databar Object

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Represents a data bar conditional formating rule. Applying a data bar to a range helps you see the value of a cell relative to other cells.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Excel 2007

Remarks

All conditional formatting objects are contained within a FormatConditions collection object, which is a child of a Range collection. You can create a data bar formatting rule by using either the Add or AddDatabar method of the FormatConditions collection.

You use the MinPoint and MaxPoint properties of the Databar object to set the values of the shortest bar and longest bar of a range of data. These properites return a ConditionValue object, in which you can specify how the thresholds are evaluated.

Example

The following example creates a range of data and then applies a data bar to the range. You will notice that because there is an extremely low and high value in the range, the middle values have data bars that are of similiar length. To disambiguate the middle values, the sample code uses the ConditionValue object to change how the thresholds are evaluated to percentiles.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub CreateDataBarCF()

Dim cfDataBar As <strong>Databar</strong>

'Create a range of data with a couple of extreme values
With ActiveSheet
    .Range("D1") = 1
    .Range("D2") = 45
    .Range("D3") = 50
    .Range("D2:D3").AutoFill Destination:=Range("D2:D8")
    .Range("D9") = 500
End With

Range("D1:D9").Select
    
'Create a data bar with default behavior
Set cfDataBar = Selection.FormatConditions.AddDatabar
MsgBox "Because of the extreme values, middle data bars are very similar"

'The MinPoint and MaxPoint properties return a ConditionValue object
'which you can use to change threshold parameters
cfDataBar.MinPoint.Modify newtype:=xlConditionValuePercentile, _
    newvalue:=5
cfDataBar.MaxPoint.Modify newtype:=xlConditionValuePercentile, _
    newvalue:=75



End Sub

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