Hi Al,

See David McRitchie's introduction notes at:

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm


The notes include links to tutorials and other development sources.


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Regards,
Norman



"Al" wrote in message
...
Thanks Harlan, looks like I'd better start learning VBA!! Any suggestions
where to start?

"Harlan Grove" wrote:

"Al" wrote...
Norman, I need to simplify the answer. These solutions (appear to)
require
VBA programming, and mine is non-existant! mAny more suggestions please?
....

The only other suggestion would be to use a different spreadsheet
program.
Excel provides *NO* built-in (worksheet function) means of determining
cell
background or text color. If you need to do this, you *MUST* use VBA or
(much more cumbersome, infelxible and error-prone) XLM functions.