Count cells with Conditional Formatting

[Guest]

We found Chip Pearson's site: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CFColors.htm with
some code that is supposed to count the cells with conditional formatting
applied. But we can not get it to work. What are we missing????

We are trying to use this:
CountOfCF
This function return the number of cells in a range that have a specified
conditional format applied. Set the last argument to -1 to look at all format
conditions, or a number between 1 and 3 to specify a particular condition.
This function requires the ActiveCondition function. You can call this
function directly from a worksheet cell with a formula like:
=CountOfCF(A1:A10,1)

We have that function in a module in the workbook. We also have the code for
the Active Condition Function and the GetStripped Function pasted in the same
module.

In the cell where we want the count to appear, we enter the CountofCf
function with the range and the number of the Conditional Formatting
condition. We either get a 0, when there should be a number, or we get a
circular reference, even though the cell with the formula is not listed in
the range.

Any ideas what we might be doing wrong?

 

[Bob Phillips]

It might be that your CF is formula based, as I recall Chip's code doesn't
cater for that. See here if so
http://xldynamic.com/source/xld.CFConditions.html

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Bob

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[Guest]

Can't de-bug your worksheet without seeing the contents. If you just need to
count cells that have conditional formats, try something like:

Function cf_cnt(r As Range) As Double
cf_cnt = 0
For Each rr In r
If rr.FormatConditions.Count > 0 Then
cf_cnt = cf_cnt + 1
End If
Next
End Function

 

[Guest]

Bob,

You are exactly right - the CF is formula based.
I'm trying your CFColorCount function but it is returning a "False" value.
The CFColorIndex function returns the correct value.

Thanks for your help!

BTW, I'm not real knowledgeable about code so please be specific with any
suggestions to changes. And patient Thanks!

 

[Bob Phillips]

Are you passing the correct colorindex to the function, and do any cells
meet the CF conditions.

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Bob

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[Guest]

Bob,
Yes to both questions. I am looking for cells with a red fill color and the
CFColorIndex function does return 3 for a value. There are about 15-20 cells
within the range that have a red fill color.

 

[Bob Phillips]

Can you send me your workbook, I cannot think of anything obvious?

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Bob

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[Guest]

Sure! How do I get it to you?
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maryj

Can you send me your workbook, I cannot think of anything obvious?

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Bob

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[Bob Phillips]

my email address in the posting is (e-mail address removed)

check my signature to see how to change it.

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Bob

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[Guest]

I emailed the file to you last Friday. Did you receive it?

 

[Bob Phillips]

Yes, I have just been in to the account and seen it. I have responded.

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Bob

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