Bob Phillips has lots on counting and summing cells based on colour
he

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Oct 6, 1:51*pm, ScottD wrote:
In Excel 2003, I have a row of 15 numbers and some of the cells in the row
have a 'gray' color-fill. *I want to 'sum' only those numbers in the row
whose cell color-fill is 'gray'. *It doesn't seem that SUMIF has a criteria
that can be selective by cell color-fill. *Is there any easy way to sum
numbers in a row or column according to a cell color-fill criteria?