Randy, have a look here

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm
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Paul B
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"Randy" wrote in message
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I have built a scheduling templet and would like to be able to count the
number of cells that shaded. Where shaded cells represent hours worked.
Any
ideas?