I think you could just use countif(A1:A3,"5")
It shouldnt matter if your using conditional formatting
or not.

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Hi everyone,

Say I have this in an excel sheet:

3.5 12.4 6.3

Using "Conditional Fromat" I color cells with red when a
value is 5.
So, in this case, both 12.4 and 6.3 will be in red.

Now, suppose in a 4th column, I want to count the # of
red-colored
cells so things will look like this:

3.5 12.4 6.3 2

How can I do this in excel?

Thanks alot,
Mike
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