Hi

I have an Excell sheet with about 200 lines. My results are calssified in
Columns in 5 Different colours. I would like to automatically count the
number of cells with a particular background colour in each coloumn.

For example:

Look at one whole column and count how many cells have a green background.

is this possible?

Try this site..

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


Duncan


Hamish wrote:

Hi

I have an Excell sheet with about 200 lines. My results are calssified in
Columns in 5 Different colours. I would like to automatically count the
number of cells with a particular background colour in each coloumn.

For example:

Look at one whole column and count how many cells have a green background.

is this possible?

See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html for a working
solution

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Hamish" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have an Excell sheet with about 200 lines. My results are calssified in
Columns in 5 Different colours. I would like to automatically count the
number of cells with a particular background colour in each coloumn.

For example:

Look at one whole column and count how many cells have a green background.

is this possible?

I would like the extend this now. The above link works fine, thankyou.

How would I change this to be conditional. For example

I have 2 Coloumns, The first coloumn contains a list of numbers

1.1 (req)
1.2 (adv)

I would like to count the number of Cells that are a particular colour in
Coloumn two and are of type (req) in the same row of colomn 1 and then the
same for adv in colomn 1. I have some ideas but I am only Familiar with C.

I would be greatful for some help. Thanks

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html for a working
solution

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Hamish" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have an Excell sheet with about 200 lines. My results are calssified in
Columns in 5 Different colours. I would like to automatically count the
number of cells with a particular background colour in each coloumn.

For example:

Look at one whole column and count how many cells have a green background.

is this possible?

Something like

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ColorIndex(A1:A100,TRUE)=3),--(A1:a100="adv"))

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Hamish" wrote in message
...
I would like the extend this now. The above link works fine, thankyou.

How would I change this to be conditional. For example

I have 2 Coloumns, The first coloumn contains a list of numbers

1.1 (req)
1.2 (adv)

I would like to count the number of Cells that are a particular colour in
Coloumn two and are of type (req) in the same row of colomn 1 and then the
same for adv in colomn 1. I have some ideas but I am only Familiar with C.

I would be greatful for some help. Thanks

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html for a working
solution

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Hamish" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have an Excell sheet with about 200 lines. My results are calssified
in
Columns in 5 Different colours. I would like to automatically count
the
number of cells with a particular background colour in each coloumn.

For example:

Look at one whole column and count how many cells have a green
background.

is this possible?

Thanks for the idea, it does not work, when you select the range of the
--(A1:a100="adv") part the range is not in blue.

will the "adv" mean that the cell contains that exactly or it just has to be
part of the cell contents?

Maybe I will just have to count manually, /cry



"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Something like

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ColorIndex(A1:A100,TRUE)=3),--(A1:a100="adv"))

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

No never count manually.

That formula is counting cells that are red, and equal 'adv', not
containing, but equal.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"Hamish" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the idea, it does not work, when you select the range of the
--(A1:a100="adv") part the range is not in blue.

will the "adv" mean that the cell contains that exactly or it just has to
be
part of the cell contents?

Maybe I will just have to count manually, /cry



"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Something like

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ColorIndex(A1:A100,TRUE)=3),--(A1:a100="adv"))

--
HTH

Bob Phillips