Function to return colour of formatted cell

[ExcelMonkey]

I am building a colour key for a a model to note which cells have be
imputted by which people. As a result I want to set up say 6 colour
in a legend and then run a macro to count the existence of each colou
in the model. A coutif based on colour if you will.

Is there an information function in Excel which will return the colou
format of a cell. For example:

Info(A1) = 2 [2 meaning a particular colour format which is evident i
cell A1]

Or should I just go the VBA route with a custom function since I wil
be building a routine to count the colours anyway?

Thanks

 

[Frank Stone]

hi,
I know of no function that will do this. VB Code is about
the only way i have found. if you want to put the counts
in a summary section, you will have to use a select case
for each color you use.(or an if then else chain)
other wise you can use a helper column to record the color
index value on each row then use the countif function on
the helper column.
Regards
Frank

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi ExcelMonkey

Look on this two sites
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html

 

[Gord Dibben]

See Chip Pearson's site for working with colors code.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

Gord Dibben Excel MVP