Why does setting a color to a cell not work?

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I have this code to try to set the background color of a cell (among other things):

private static readonly Color CONTRACT_ITEM_COLOR = Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 204);
. . .
cell = pivotTableSheet.Cells[4, 0];
cell.PutValue(AnnualContractProductsLabel);
style = cell.GetStyle();
style.HorizontalAlignment = TextAlignmentType.Center;
style.VerticalAlignment = TextAlignmentType.Center;
style.Font.IsBold = true;
pivotTableSheet.Cells.SetRowHeight(4, 25);
style.BackgroundColor = CONTRACT_ITEM_COLOR;
pivotTableSheet.Cells[4, 0].SetStyle(style);

The setting of horizontal and vertical alignment works, as does bold and height - everything but color, as can be seen in the screenshot below.

What is yet needed? I have even tried setting ForegroundColor as well as Background colors, to :

style.ForegroundColor = Color.Red;
style.BackgroundColor = Color.Blue;

...but neither does anything - the cell still looks exactly the same as before.
2

Hi,


Thanks for providing us sample code with details.

Please change your code segment to (see the lines in bold):
e.g
Sample code:

. . .
cell = pivotTableSheet.Cells[4, 0];
cell.PutValue(AnnualContractProductsLabel);
style = cell.GetStyle();
style.HorizontalAlignment = TextAlignmentType.Center;
style.VerticalAlignment = TextAlignmentType.Center;
style.Font.IsBold = true;
pivotTableSheet.Cells.SetRowHeight(4, 25);
style.ForegroundColor = CONTRACT_ITEM_COLOR;
style.Pattern = BackgroundType.Solid;
pivotTableSheet.Cells[4, 0].SetStyle(style);
…

it should work fine.

Let us know if you still have any issue.

Thank you.
3

Thanks! That works!


It still doesn’t work on ranges in a Pivot Table, though (only on “regular old” cells).

Which is:

Range rangeToColorize = pivotTableSheet.Cells.CreateRange(
currentRowBeingExamined, 0,
ROWS_BETWEEN_DESCRIPTIONS, _grandTotalsColumnPivotTable + 2);
Style style;

style = workBook.CreateStyle();
style.ForegroundColor = CONTRACT_ITEM_COLOR; // Color.Red;
style.Pattern = BackgroundType.Solid;

StyleFlag styleFlag = new StyleFlag();
styleFlag.Font = true;
styleFlag.CellShading = true;

rangeToColorize.ApplyStyle(style, styleFlag);

4

Hi,


Good to know that it works on regular cells.

Well, you got to call PivotTable.RefreshData() and PivotTable.CalculateData() before creating pivot table range(s) and applying style/formatting to it.

Thank you.