Excel should let me sort on cell background color
 

Version excel 2003

Mama

It's not standard functionality but you could put a UDF (User Defined
Function) in the workbook and then enter it in another column and sort by
that.

=ReturnColorIndex(A1)

UDF (Place in a standard module in the workbook)

Function ReturnColorIndex(rCell As Range) As Integer
Application.Volatile True
ReturnColorIndex = rCell.Interior.ColorIndex
End Function



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Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
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"mama" wrote in message
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Version excel 2003

mama

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

While waiting for MS to make the changes in the next version you should visit
Chip Pearson's site to see what's available for working with colors.

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



Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:19:02 -0800, "mama"
wrote:

Version excel 2003

My great friend Dave Hawley www.OzGrid.com has some dowmloadable example
in XLS format sure you find something there, and VBA code is open source
too.

Jack



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Excel should let me sort on cell background color
 

The cell where I put the function say #Name?. In detail, where do I copy in
the UDF? Tool - Macro - VBA - ? - ? - ?
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"Nick Hodge" wrote:

Mama

It's not standard functionality but you could put a UDF (User Defined
Function) in the workbook and then enter it in another column and sort by
that.

=ReturnColorIndex(A1)

UDF (Place in a standard module in the workbook)

Function ReturnColorIndex(rCell As Range) As Integer
Application.Volatile True
ReturnColorIndex = rCell.Interior.ColorIndex
End Function



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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
HIS


"mama" wrote in message
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Version excel 2003

Excel should let me sort on cell background color
 

The code goes in a general module inside that workbook's project (in the VBE).

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

zzxxcc wrote:

The cell where I put the function say #Name?. In detail, where do I copy in
the UDF? Tool - Macro - VBA - ? - ? - ?
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Thanks

"Nick Hodge" wrote:

Mama

It's not standard functionality but you could put a UDF (User Defined
Function) in the workbook and then enter it in another column and sort by
that.

=ReturnColorIndex(A1)

UDF (Place in a standard module in the workbook)

Function ReturnColorIndex(rCell As Range) As Integer
Application.Volatile True
ReturnColorIndex = rCell.Interior.ColorIndex
End Function



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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
HIS


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