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VBA Code to Redact Specified Range in Excel


Here's a little VBA code of my own devising to redact a range of cells in an Excel spreadsheet.

We begin with a spreadsheet that looks like this:

Press ALT + F11 and then insert a module with this visual basic code:

Sub textcolor() Range("A1:A3").MergeCells = True Range("A1:A3").Font.Color = vbWhite Range("A1:A3").Interior.ColorIndex = 1 Range("A1").Value = "Redacted" End Sub

Run the macro and we get a redacted range:


Sean O'Shea has more than 20 years of experience in the litigation support field with major law firms in New York and San Francisco.   He is an ACEDS Certified eDiscovery Specialist and a Relativity Certified Administrator.

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