Or you could look at Chip Pearson's routine (he has already done it):

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CFColors.htm
Conditional Formatting Colors

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



Bob Phillips wrote in message
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-4147? Do you mean -4142, which is xlColorindexNone, the cell default. All
cells start with this value so you might fail with what you try.

One day I am going to try and write a utility to test a CF colorindex, but
don't hold your breath.

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"K Bro" wrote in message
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That is exactly my problem when I try to return the colorIndex property
after a cell has been conditionally formated I get a number like -4147.
During my research of this I discovered that number is from the table of
xlConstants. I might try that just for kicks. The color it is set to
after CF is stored somewhere.

Your recomended solution is right on, that would work, but now I have a
quest.




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