Denise,

I have just completed a "macro thingy" that does what you want.
It is an Excel add-in ("Special Sort") that provides nine additional sort options...

color - font color or cell color
text with numbers in numerical sequence
just the numbers in the text
length of text
text in reverse
date - day, month, year or day of week
excluding leading articles (a, an, the)
text before a specified separator
text after a specified separator

There is an option to include borders with the sorted cells.
It looks and acts somewhat like the regular Excel sort utility.
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Comes with a two page Word.doc install/use file.
Available -free- upon direct request.
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Regards,
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
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"Denise Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi all

I have a large database (23,000 rows) and many of the rows have coloured
backgrounds as a form of coding to myself.

Is there anyway you can sort by fill colour?

eg. 1000 are Red to indicate No interest and I want to easily delete them in
one go rather than scrolling through 23,000 and deleteing individually.

I have a feeling someone will suggest writing a Macro thingy which I'm
afraid my brain will not be able to cope with!

Thank you
Denise