{"id":244493,"date":"2023-04-11T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/?p=244493"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:27:20","slug":"custom-excel-formula-to-count-based-on-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2023\/04\/custom-excel-formula-to-count-based-on-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Excel Formula to Count based on Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, <span class=\"pa-color-highlight\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DesiVidesiVibes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my wife, Shagun Sharma, who is a Vlogger<\/a><\/span> shared an excel sheet with some data and a problem to solve, which can save some time of hers. <\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n<h2>Problem Statement:<\/h2>\n<p>She had created an Excel sheet for her planning where she used to highlight some of the cells with certain colors as a background color for her readability purposes. Note that, this color filling [background color] was done by her manually over a period of time and not by conditional formatting, etc. Now, that she had a bigger sheet with many rows and columns, she wanted to count only those cells where she had filled in specific colors as the background color.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Excel formula to count cells with specific colors<\/h2>\n<p>In order to count all such cells with a specific background color, I defined <a href=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/user-defined-functions\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a user-defined function.<\/a> to count the number of cells with a specific background color.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe background color of a cell is stored in <code>cell.Interior.ColorIndex<\/code> in Excel VBA. This <code>ColorIndex<\/code>, as the name suggests stores the index in a numerical value assigned for each color. Therefore, we start counting, we need to define a function that can return you the <code>ColorIndex<\/code> of the background color of a cell.\n<\/p>\n<h4>VBA to get the Color Index of background color of a cell<\/h4>\n<p>Following is the simple, user-defined function, that will return the <code>ColorIndex<\/code> of provided cell address<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nPublic Function getColorIndex(ByVal cell As Range) As Integer\r\n    getColorIndex = cell.Interior.ColorIndex\r\nEnd Function\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After running the above custom formula, you can see the color index of <code>green<\/code> color is returned i.e. <code>50<\/code>.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_244497\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f7f9f6\" data-has-transparency=\"true\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f7f9f6;\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244497\" src=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/04\/green-color-index-1024x408.png\" alt=\"Green colorIndex\" width=\"1024\" height=\"408\" class=\"has-transparency size-large wp-image-244497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/04\/green-color-index-1024x408.png 1024w, https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/04\/green-color-index-980x391.png 980w, https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/04\/green-color-index-480x191.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-244497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cell Interior color index<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Using the above custom function, now we can define another customer formula, which can return the count.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nPublic Function getColorCount(ByVal cell As Range, ByVal hex As Long) As Integer\r\n    Count = 0\r\n    For Each cell In cell.Cells\r\n        If (cell.Interior.ColorIndex = hex) Then\r\n            Count = Count + 1\r\n        End If\r\n    Next\r\n    getColorCount = Count\r\nEnd Function\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After running the above custom formula, you can get the count of green color cells.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_244499\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-dominant-color=\"cfd9cb\" data-has-transparency=\"true\" style=\"--dominant-color: #cfd9cb;\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244499\" src=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/04\/count-background-color-1024x236.png\" alt=\"Get Count of colored background\" width=\"1024\" height=\"236\" class=\"has-transparency size-large wp-image-244499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/04\/count-background-color-980x226.png 980w, https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/04\/count-background-color-480x111.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-244499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get Count of colored background<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n<h3>How to use this code as a formula?<\/h3>\n<p>Refer to the bellow article to know how to use the above code in order to create a custom formula. <a href=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2014\/05\/how-to-create-custom-functions-in-excel\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to create a custom formula?<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What is User Defined Function (UDF) ?<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft Excel allows us to create our own functions, based on our own needs. Such functions are called \u201cUser Defined Functions\u201d (UDFs) or Custom Functions.<\/p>\n<p>These functions behave exactly like Excel\u2019s inbuilt formulas. These are helpful in simplifying complicated calculations or string-related stuff. Sometimes, you might have felt, \u201cI wish, Excel had a built-in formula for this calculation\u201d !! No worry, you can create your own formula.. and through all the dirty code behind the bar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, Last Friday, my wife, Shagun Sharma, who is a Vlogger shared an excel sheet with some data and a problem to solve, which can save some time of hers. 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