Icon and Criteria in Excel VBA, C#, VB.Net example IconSet and IconCriteria objects in Excel

Icon

Shows the collection of IconCriterion objects. Each IconCriterion object represents the values and threshold type for each icon in an icon set conditional formatting rule. The IconCriteria collection is returned from the IconCriteria property of the IconSetCondition object. You can access each IconCriterion object in the collection by passing an index (a positive integer) into the collection.

Lets put code around to automate the same. In this article we are using VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for office) in both flavors (C#, VB.Net) and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) hence following prerequisites are recommended:

Visual Studio 2015 or above having Microsoft Office for Developer Tool installed
Create Excel Addin in C# or VB code style (Visual Studio Tools for Office)
Excel 2010 or above
Create a ribbon designer and put button

C# code example

private void btnIcon_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
{
	//Retain selection
	excel.Range oRange = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Selection;

	//Get current workbook
	excel.Workbook oWorkbook = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveWorkbook;

	if (oRange != null)
	{
		//Create an icon set conditional format on selection
		excel.IconSetCondition oConSetCondition = oRange.FormatConditions.AddIconSetCondition();

		//Change the icon set to a five arrow icon set
		oConSetCondition.IconSet = oWorkbook.IconSets[excel.XlIconSet.xl5Arrows];

		//modify each IconCriteria
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[2].Type=excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber;
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[2].Value = 16;
		// Operators and constants
		// xlBetween = 1
		// xlNotBetween = 2
		// xlEqual = 3
		// xlNotEqual = 4
		// xlGreater = 5
		// xlLess = 6
		// xlGreaterEqual = 7
		// xlLessEqual = 8
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[2].Operator = 7;

		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[3].Type = excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber;
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[3].Value = 70;                
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[3].Operator = 7;

		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[4].Type = excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber;
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[4].Value = 80;
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[4].Operator = 7;

		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[5].Type = excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber;
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[5].Value = 90;
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria[5].Operator = 7;
	}
	else
	{
		MessageBox.Show(@"Please select a valid range!!!");
	}
}

VB.Net code example

Private Sub btnIcon_Click(sender As Object, e As RibbonControlEventArgs) Handles btnIcon.Click
	'Retain selection
	Dim oRange as excel.Range
	oRange = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Selection

	'Get current workbook
	dim oWorkbook as excel.Workbook
	oWorkbook = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveWorkbook

	If not oRange Is Nothing Then
		'Create an icon set conditional format on selection
		dim oConSetCondition as excel.IconSetCondition
		oConSetCondition = oRange.FormatConditions.AddIconSetCondition()

		'Change the icon set to a five arrow icon set
		oConSetCondition.IconSet = oWorkbook.IconSets(excel.XlIconSet.xl5Arrows)

		'modify each IconCriteria
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(2).Type=excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(2).Value = 16
		 ' Operators and constants
		 ' xlBetween = 1
		 ' xlNotBetween = 2
		 ' xlEqual = 3
		 ' xlNotEqual = 4
		 ' xlGreater = 5
		 ' xlLess = 6
		 ' xlGreaterEqual = 7
		 ' xlLessEqual = 8
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(2).Operator = 7

		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(3).Type = excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(3).Value = 70                
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(3).Operator = 7

		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(4).Type = excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(4).Value = 80
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(4).Operator = 7

		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(5).Type = excel.XlConditionValueTypes.xlConditionValueNumber
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(5).Value = 90
		oConSetCondition.IconCriteria(5).Operator = 7
	else
		MsgBox("Please select a valid range!!!")
	End If
End Sub

VBA code example

Sub CreateIconSetCF()
 
 Dim oIconSet As IconSetCondition
 
 'Bind workbook reference
 Dim oWorkbook As Workbook
 Set oWorkbook = ActiveWorkbook
 
 'bind selection
 Dim oRange As Range
 Set oRange = Selection
  
 'Create an icon set conditional format on selection
 Set oIconSet = oRange.FormatConditions.AddIconSetCondition
 
 'Change the icon set to a five arrow icon set
 oIconSet.IconSet = oWorkbook.IconSets(xl5Arrows)
 
 'modify each IconCriteria
 ' Operators and constants
 ' xlBetween = 1
 ' xlNotBetween = 2
 ' xlEqual = 3
 ' xlNotEqual = 4
 ' xlGreater = 5
 ' xlLess = 6
 ' xlGreaterEqual = 7
 ' xlLessEqual = 8
 
 With oIconSet.IconCriteria(2)
    .Type = xlConditionValueNumber
    .Value = 60
    .Operator = 7
 End With
 
 With oIconSet.IconCriteria(3)
    .Type = xlConditionValueNumber
    .Value = 70
    .Operator = 7
 End With
 
 With oIconSet.IconCriteria(4)
    .Type = xlConditionValueNumber
    .Value = 80
    .Operator = 7
 End With
 
 With oIconSet.IconCriteria(5)
    .Type = xlConditionValueNumber
    .Value = 90
    .Operator = 7
 End With
 
End Sub

Output

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