Count If on colours in a cell?

Hi
i have a spreadsheet that i use define what my collegues are doing e.g on
holiday,sick, BAU, or Projects amongst others and each one has a colour code.

at the end of the period i would like to count the number of cells that are
coloured red = sick, the number of cells that are blue =project etc etc.

Is there away i can do this the cells are just coloured and have no text or
numbers written in them.

Many thanks

Simon

I have a similar spreadsheet that i assign a letter to each activity e.g. S for sick, L for Leave and so on. I realise i can only do this for up to 3 conditions in any one cell but i then use a simple Countif along the row looking for S, L and so on.

Sorry i can't answer the actual question but i thought this might offer an alternative solution.

See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html for a working
solution

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Bob Phillips

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> Hi
> i have a spreadsheet that i use define what my collegues are doing e.g on
> holiday,sick, BAU, or Projects amongst others and each one has a colour
code.
>
> at the end of the period i would like to count the number of cells that
are
> coloured red = sick, the number of cells that are blue =project etc etc.
>
> Is there away i can do this the cells are just coloured and have no text
or
> numbers written in them.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Simon