Try Bob Phillips' nice page on this at:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.....html#counting
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"Ray" wrote in message
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I would like to count the cells of a column which are equal to a specific
colour of background. Can someone advise how to accomplish it.

Thanks,

Ray