Actually, my last post makes it sound too easy.

I am making a form to help people set up an account number in a chart of
accounts.
The cell A1 tells them if the number they select is already used. So in
conditional formatting I've set up a "countif" formula which looks at the
existing list of account numbers and returns a RED cell if it matches.

(I thought I'd better add this because this is why the IF statement is
complicated, the list of numbers to compare to is too long, but if I could
get it to compare to the Colour Red, my life would be simplier!)

thanks!


"Otto Moehrbach" wrote:

LinLin
You cannot write an IF statement formula that looks at the color of the
cell. VBA can do that, but not a formula. Perhaps you can work with the
condition that makes that cell colored? Come back if you want to try a VBA
solution. Provide more detail about what you have and what you want to do.
HTH Otto
"LinLin" wrote in message
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Hi Everyone

I'm not sure how to write an IF statement.

If Cell A1 is shaded RED, I want cell B1 to to say OK
If A1 is not red, then no message.

The IF statement is obviously in cell B1.

As far as I can see, conditional formatting will not work, because I want
a
message in B1, not a format.

Any ideas?

many thanks