not that elegant, but this will work...

1. Built a very easy function that returns the colorindex property of a
particular cell; ie:

Function CellColor(Cellref As String)
CellColor = Range(Cellref).Font.ColorIndex
End Function

2. Beside the column you want evaluated (or elsewhere) use the above
function to return the colorindex of the cell; ie:

A B
10 =CellColor(CELL("address",A1))
20 =CellColor(CELL("address",A2))
30 =CellColor(CELL("address",A3))

3. Use SUMIF to calculate the lot; ie:

=SUMIF(B1:B3,3,A1:A3)

In the above case, the "3" checks for excel's default version of the color
red.

HWH
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"Cathy Floyd" wrote in message
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I am looking for a formula to sum only the numbers that
appear in red font color. I tried using this formula: =IF
((font.color=_RGB(255,0,0)),SUM(K5:K25060),0), but it did
not work. Any suggestions?