Comments on: Is there a standard formula for counting highlighted cells in Excel 2007?

By: excelnoob

excelnoob — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:11:25 +0000

I used Rechill’s code and it worked beautifully, accept that when I highlighted somethign else it wouldn’t automatically update. So I don’t know how to fix that.

However that was yesterday. Today i opened up the spreadsheet and the function no longer worked… I don’t know much about VBA so I dont know what went wrong

By: rechil

rechil — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:32:51 +0000

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By: gshmn

gshmn — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:10:49 +0000

how to used standardize formula in excel

By: rechil

rechil — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:26:59 +0000

There isn’t a built in function for this, BUT you can create your own. For eg. if u want to highlight colored range….
Press Alt F11 to get into the VBA editor, then insert a module (insert menu) into your workbook. Into this write the following: I just provide as an example, u must change according to ur scenario…..

Function colornumber(myvar As Range)
colornumber = myvar.Interior.ColorIndex
End Function

Function colorcount(myvar As Range, ColVar As Long)
For Each cell In myvar
If cell.Interior.ColorIndex = ColVar Then colorcount = colorcount + 1
Next

End Function

These two functions give you what you need

Enter this formula onto the worksheet:

=colorcount(A1:A16,colornumber(A1))

and you will get the result you need

By: sbelectric

sbelectric — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:12:13 +0000

I had a similar situation in the past but I got over with a mostly manual operation. I am interested with the solution provided by Rechil. But I could not make it work. The macro did not provide what I am looking for. The Count operation is not what Buddyboy123 asked (at least that is my understanding).

Could Rechil please provide more detail – you provide such good and detailed answer. I can use your concept to find solution to my situation.

Buddyboy123 were you able to apply Rechil’s suggestion – just curious?

I have a rather large Spreadsheet & would like to know the cell addresses when some one highlights it (by putting background color).