Excel does not have a built-in feature to sum or count cells by color, but this can be achieved using three methods: Filtering with Subtotal, Name Manager with Helper Columns, or Custom VBA Functions.

Thankfully, Microsoft Excel's COUNTIF formula swoops in to save the day. It lets you count cells based on specific text or conditions, turning your spreadsheet chaos into organized data magic.

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn't. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem.

I have a set of spreadsheets where the data (text) is color-coded by row. Would it be feasible to write a formula or script to count how many of what color rows are spread across the workbooks in ...