Enter a value dependant on the colour of a cell

G

Guest

I have a spreadsheet that has been partially filled by someone else. They
have filled in all cells relating to a certain condition with the background
colour of yellow. Unfortunately this is the only indicator he has used, and I
now need to filter based on the colour selection.

What I am wanting to do is enter a value in a cell dependant on the colour
of a different cell. What I mean by this is that if the background colour of
B2 is yellow, put YES in A2 and so on down the rows.

Can anyone offer me some advice on this?

Cheers,

cdb
 
B

Bob Phillips

You need a simple UDF

Function ColorIndex(rng As Range)
If rng.Cells.Count > 1 Then
ColorIndex = CVErr(xlErrRef)
Else
ColorIndex = rng.Interior.ColorIndex
End If
End Function

and use that in the worksheet like so

=If(ColorIndex(B2)=6,"YES","")

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove xxx from email address if mailing direct)
 
P

Paul Lautman

cdb said:
I have a spreadsheet that has been partially filled by someone else.
They have filled in all cells relating to a certain condition with
the background colour of yellow. Unfortunately this is the only
indicator he has used, and I now need to filter based on the colour
selection.

What I am wanting to do is enter a value in a cell dependant on the
colour of a different cell. What I mean by this is that if the
background colour of B2 is yellow, put YES in A2 and so on down the
rows.

Can anyone offer me some advice on this?

Cheers,

cdb
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I typed excel filter cell color into google and found this link on the first
page:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=213923
 
G

Guest

Cheers,

Thanks for the help.

Bob Phillips said:
You need a simple UDF

Function ColorIndex(rng As Range)
If rng.Cells.Count > 1 Then
ColorIndex = CVErr(xlErrRef)
Else
ColorIndex = rng.Interior.ColorIndex
End If
End Function

and use that in the worksheet like so

=If(ColorIndex(B2)=6,"YES","")

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove xxx from email address if mailing direct)
Click to expand...
 

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