The VBA window in Mac is much less detailed than in Windows and I find it confusing. Make sure that in the left-hand pane you click on the appropriate drop down. VBAProject(WorkbookName) -> Microsoft Excel Objects -> Sheet2 and insert the Worksheet_Change function there. Use a formula to apply conditional formatting in Excel for Mac. When you create the rule, make sure it applies to cells D2:D11. Set a color format to be applied to cells that match the criteria (that is, there is.

I this article you will learn how to count cells by color in Excel and get the sum of colored cells. These solutions work both for cells colored manually and with conditional formatting. You will also learn how to filter cells by several colors in Excel 2010, Excel 2013 and Excel 2016. If you actively use diverse fill and font colors in your Excel worksheets to differentiate between various types of cells or values, you may want to know how many cells are highlighted in a certain color.

If your cells' values are numbers, you may also want to automatically calculate the sum of cells shaded with the same color, e.g. The sum of all red cells. As all of us know, Microsoft Excel provides a variety of formulas for different purposes, and it would be logical to assume that there are some to count cells by color.

But regrettably, there is no formula that would let us sum by color or count by color in a usual Excel worksheet. Apart from using third-party add-ins, there is only one possible solution - utilize User Defined Functions. If you know very little about this technology or have never heard this term before, don't be afraid, you will not have to write the code yourself. You will find the perfect code (written by our Excel guru) here and all that you will have to do is copy / paste it into your workbook. • • • • How to count by color and sum by color in an Excel worksheet Suppose you have a table listing your company's orders where the cells in the Delivery column are colored based on their value - ' Due in X Days' cells are orange, ' Delivered' items are green and ' Past Due' orders are red.

What we want now is automatically count cells by color, i.e. Calculate the number of red, green and orange cells in the worksheet. As I explained above, there is no straightforward solution to this task. But luckily we have very skilled and knowledgeable Excel gurus in our team and has written the faultless code for Excel 2010, 2013 and 2016. So, move on with the 5 quick steps below and you will know the number and sum of your color cells in a few minutes. • Open your Excel workbook and press Alt+F11 to open Visual Basic Editor (VBE). • Right-click on your workbook name under ' Project-VBAProject' in the right hand part of the screen, and then choose Insert > Module from the context menu.

• Add the following code to your worksheet. CountCellsByColor( range, color code) In this example, we use the formula =CountCellsByColor(F2:F14,A17) where F2:F14 is the range containing color-coded cells you want to count and A17 is the cell with a certain background color, a red one in our case. In a similar way, you write the formula for the other colors you want to count, yellow and green in our table.

If you have numerical data in colored cells (e.g. Column in our table), you can add up the values based on a certain color by using an analogous SumCellsByColor function. Note: If after applying the above mentioned VBA code you would need to color a few more cells manually, the sum and count of the colored cells won't get recalculated automatically to reflect the changes. Please don't be angry with us, this is not a bug of the code: ) In fact, it is the normal behavior of all Excel macros, VBA scripts and User-Defined Functions. The point is that all such functions are called with a change of a worksheet's data only and Excel does not perceive changing the font color or cell color as a data change. So, after coloring cells manually, simply place the cursor to any cell and press F2 and Enter, the sum and count will get updated.

The same applies to the other macros you will find further in this article. Sum by color and count by color across the entire workbook The VB script below was written in response to (also by our Excel's guru ) and does exactly what Connor requested, namely counts and sums the cells of a certain color in all worksheets of the workbook. So, here comes the code. Note: Please remember that all of these formulas will work only if you have added the to your Excel workbook as demonstrated earlier in the article. Functions to count by color: • CountCellsByColor(range, color code)- counts cells with the specified background color. In the above example, we used the following formula to count cells by color =CountCellsByColor(F2:F14,A17) where F2:F14 is the selected range and A17 is the cell with the needed background color. You can use all other formulas listed below in a similar way.