robo, have a look at Chip's page here and see if that will work for you

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

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"robo" wrote in message
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Hi,



I would appreciate some help with Excel, I have a worksheet where I want
to count colours. For example I have a timesheet which highlights in red
in the cells when a person is on duty for a 7 day period.



I have tried countif..etc however I can't get it to work and I don't want
to put a letter in each of the cells for example a 'D' when the person is
on duty, however I know that countif will work using a letter.



I would be grateful for any help.



Regards,