I don't believe that you can use pivot tables to take into account the number
of cells to which conditional formatting is applied, at least without writing
a macro.

You can, however, use the COUNTIF function to count the occurrences of a
certain date. Assume the condition you're interested in counting is dates
that show 10/1/2006 (using the American mm/dd/yyyy format), and the dates in
question are in column A. =COUNTIF(A1,A100,"10/1/2006") will count all the
records for which the corresponding date is 10/1/2006.

Does that do what you're looking to accomplish?

There is, however, a way to count colored cells with macros. See he
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm Personally, I think this is much
more complicated than the method I give above.

Post back if you have questions.

Dave
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"Aussie Mick F" wrote:

I'm trying to use a pivot table to count the results of a IF statement which
has conditional formatting attached.

The if statement returns a "1" results if the column date falls within a
specified date range. The conditional formatting then assigns this cell a
certain colour. I would like to input this data into the Pivot Table along
with other row data in order to report on it.

Currently when I do this Excel takes every cell as having a value due to the
IF statement / conditional formatting. I have been able to calculate the
total number of cells in the column which contain a "1" value by doing a
SUMIF with a VALUE field for the "1" but I don't know if I can do this with
the Pivot Table.

Hope that all made some sense. Any ideas on how to include this data in a
pivot table?