Hi Carol,
You can't use a built in function to count formatted cells in Excel, there
is no such function. You can count '1's or 'Hello's using COUNTIF or
suchlike but not formats. It can be done with programming, see here courtesy
of Mr Pearson who has lots of other good stuff on his website,
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm
Regards,
Alan
"Thrlckr" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am trying to count cells in a row that either contain a "1" or are
"blank," but some of the cells in the row are shaded. The problem that I
am
having is that I cannot make the formula work where it counts and adds up
all
the "1's" and "blank" cells, but not the "shaded" cells. The other
problem
is that sometimes the shaded cells do contain a "1" in it, but I still do
not
want that cell counted.

If someone can PLEASE help me with this, I would greatly appreciate it!

Sincerely,
Carol