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Excel VBA Macros | Loops and conditions exercise | Colouring dinosaurs
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Software ==> | Excel VBA Macros (52 exercises) |
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Topic ==> | Loops and conditions (5 exercises) |
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Write a macro to colour the dinosaurs by period:
- Cretaceous ones will be red (set their Interior.Color property to RGB(200,100,100))
- Jurassic ones will be green (set their Interior.Color property to RGB(100,200,100))
- Triassic ones will be blue (set their Interior.Color property to RGB(100,100,200))
See below for what your final spreadsheet should look like.
Your final spreadsheet should look something like this after running your macro:

The button is optional!
Save your workbook, then close it down.