cell pattern - color

[Guest]

hi community

is it possible to count number of cells that has color pattern,
what i m saying:

example in A1:A5
and I have
A1 fill with color pattern
A3 fill with color pattern
A4 fill with color pattern

and I want to check whether in range A1:A5 how many cells have color pattern..
can I do such and if possible, how i do it?

thanks community for the help

 

[Guest]

A couple of ways

http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/count-sum-cell-color.htm
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

Mike

 

[Bob Phillips]

See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html for a working
solution

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HTH

Bob

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