hi
this fuction is not built in to excel in 2003 and earlier but see this site
for custom function that do that....count by color, sum by color, sort by
color ect
http://cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

i do not have 2007 and have not worked with this but i am told that these
function are built into 2007.

Regards
FST1

"Neil Pearce" wrote:

Is there a way that Excel will count the number of cells in a column / row
dependant in on the format of those cells? i.e. count the number of cells in
column A that are coloured red?