The dashes are meant to be there, believe me.

Tan has a colorindex of 40 not 3.

The ColorIndex function should be in a standard code module not a sheet or
workbook module.

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HTH

Bob

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"Roadmap" wrote in message
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On May 25, 9:00 pm, FSt1 wrote:
hi,
not sure what you are asking. I didn't say anything about formulas or
dashes.

FSt1



"Roadmap" wrote:
On May 25, 8:17 pm, FSt1 wrote:
hi,
I think you may be right. color index 3 is red.
in vb help (alt+F11) look up the pattercolorindex property. it will
show you
the delfaut colors and the corresponding index number. if you have
custom
colors, then you must use the index number of the color you
customized.

Regards
FSt1

"Roadmap" wrote:
I have a spreadsheet with 26 rows and 40 columns, some cells of
which
have the background color of "tan". I need to count the colored
cells
within each column. I've been going round and round with the vba
coding I found
athttp://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html
- I copied the code into the vbs window, saved the module and
returned
to the worksheet. In the last row of the first column, I pasted
this
function: =SUMPRODUCT(--(ColorIndex(A1:A26)=3))

I know this must be very simple, but I cannot get the module to
work.
One reason may be that the color is not 3 - but tan.

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The dashes were in the formula I pasted from
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html

This is what I pasted into the module: function: =SUMPRODUCT(--
(ColorIndex(A1:A26)=3))

The -- follow sumproduct(--