Sum of conditionally formatted cells by colour

**codeyl5** · 07-25-2012, 05:57 AM

Hi there,

In one of the coloumns i have the option of entering A, B or C. i have set up conditional formatting so that the row changes colour depending on whether A, B or C is entered in the first coloumn. i now want to sum all the values that Pink (A) and create a total number.

I have been looking online and it seems that summing colours with conditional formatting applied is fairly difficult and have tried the chip pearson method but with no joy as it is complex!1

any ideas??

**DBY** · 07-25-2012, 07:25 AM

Hello
If the colour of the row depends entirely on the value entered in column A, then perhaps you could use a SUMPRODUCT function to sum the values of each row with a header of 'A' or 'B' etc. For example, if the values where in the range: A2:F10, then the following formula would sum all the rows with 'A' in column A.

=SUMPRODUCT(($A$2:$A$10="A")*$B$2:$F$10)

If you want to sum by cell colour you would have to use VBA.

Hope this helps.
DBY

**codeyl5** · 07-25-2012, 07:29 AM

Thanks for your help, this worked perfectly!!!

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