Excel: Count/Sum cells by Fill Color

Excel VBA Macro - Count Or Sum By Fill Color

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Originally Posted in our Excel Help Forum

I am trying to count different colored numbers entered in a field. E.g. I would like to highlight an area and get the sum of any 'red', 'black' or ‘blue’ numbers. I have tried the help function but have become completely stuck. Hopefully this is a simple question and any help would be great! Many thanks.

Dave Hawley provided a link to the following User Defined Functions written for just this purpose.

Function SumColor(rColor As Range, rSumRange As Range)
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'Written by Ozgrid Business Applications
'www.ozgrid.com
'Sums cells based on a specified fill color.
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Dim rCell As Range
Dim iCol As Integer
Dim vResult

iCol = rColor.Interior.ColorIndex
For Each rCell In rSumRange
     If rCell.Interior.ColorIndex = iCol Then
            vResult = WorksheetFunction.Sum(rCell) + vResult
     End If
Next rCell
SumColor = vResult
End Function

'The following counts cell values based on “fill” colour

Function CountColor(rColor As Range, rSumRange As Range)
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'Written by Ozgrid Business Applications
'www.ozgrid.com
'Counts cells based on a specified fill color.
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Dim rCell As Range
Dim iCol As Integer
Dim vResult

iCol = rColor.Interior.ColorIndex
For Each rCell In rSumRange
If rCell.Interior.ColorIndex = iCol Then
       vResult = vResult + 1
End If
Next rCell
End Sub

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