see Conditional Formatting
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/condfmt.htm
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"BekkiM" wrote...
Why not just use conditional formatting? You can set up essentially the same
If/then conditions and get your fill color that way.

"Jason R Morris" wrote:
I am trying to us an if then statment in a function to change the fill color
of a cell if the conditions are true. I have tried
"ActiveCell.Interior.ColorIndex = 6" that works in subs, but it does not
works in functions.