Everyone, with the help of g-one, I have created a function that you can install into your windows/system32 folder to get more than one colour in batch files.

Copy and paste the following code and save it as ncol.bat (this is very important that you save it exactly like that).

@echo off
setlocal
if "%~1"=="/?" (
echo.
echo    ncol ["Text"] [Colour]
echo.
echo "Text" - The text you want displayed in another colour.
echo          Remember that spaces cannot be added if you don't put the text in
echo          quotation marks (""^).
echo.
echo Colour - The hexadecimal colour code that you want the text to be changed into.
echo          For more information of colour codes, see "color /?"
echo.
exit /b
)
for /f "delims=#" %%i in ('"prompt #$H# &for %%b in (1) do rem"') do set "bs=%%i"
"%~1.@" set /p "=.%bs%%bs%%bs%%bs%"
findstr /p /a:%2 . "*.@"
endlocal
del "*.@"
@echo on
@exit /b

Once that is done, head over to your windows system32 folder and save it in there (C:\Windows\System32)

Read on for instructions...

Step 1: Instructions

Ok, how to use this function.

Firstly, type it in as you would any command "ncol"

The first parameter is the text you want converted.

The second parameter is the colour (must be correspondent to the colour command).

Example:

ncol "Hello" 10

Would output:

Hello

Just try it!

Note: If you have spaces, you must use quotation marks ("").

P.S: type in "ncol /?" for more help.

Unfortunately, special characters cannot be converted yet... (~!@#$%^&*()_+=-/,.<>":;'[]\{}|`)

And there is a little glitch with it, but other than that... It's good to go!

--EDIT--
To add more colors onto one line, use the && operator. E.g: ncol "Hello " 12 && ncol "there" 23
would output "Hello " in one color, and "there" in another.

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26 Comments

NotePro

1 year ago

Does the file have to be named "ncol.bat" ?

wilderness tech

6 years ago

umm... when i do that i get

'"Hello.@"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
FINDSTR: Cannot open *.@
Could Not Find C:\Users\MyName\*.@

Mclover152

8 years ago on Introduction

No its fine, i found a different program that does the same thing but works. I still like ur idea though.

Batchcc

7 years ago

Everyone I made a version that works view it here

https://www.instructables.com/id/Multiple-colors-in-cmd/

The Batchicle

7 years ago

Hey Pickle! just wanted to say thanks because your instructables have really helped me with getting into batch but just a question. Why don't you create any more instructables? it would be really nice if you had more :)