Adding figures in excel if text is a certain colour

[vipa2000]

I have a spreadsheet with a lot of figures in it that
evolves on a monthly basis. When the figures are added
each month the figures are changed in colour from red to
blue to denote going from budget costs to actual costs. I
want excel to sum the figures based on colour. How can it
be done. I have looked at the IF statement, but not sure.
Thanks in advance Paul

 

[Chip Pearson]

Paul,

You need to use some VBA code to do this. See
www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm for example code, specifically
SumByColor.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com (e-mail address removed)

 

[Paul Walker]

Managed to integrate and on initial input works fine, however the cell
does not update automatically as I update colours of the cells. What am
i doing wrong>? thanks in advance Paul

 

[Dave Peterson]

Absolutely nothing wrong. Read that big note at Chip's site once more.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

It's right near the top.

 

[Paul Walker]

Thanks chaps. ALT F9 to recalculate. No other way around this but it
works! Got too carried away in my excitement that I had an answer and
did not fully read to the end of the document