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Counting the number of conditionally formatted cells in Excel can be achieved by following a few simple steps. First, select the range of cells in which you have applied conditional formatting. Then, click on the Home” tab and select “Conditional Formatting” from the “Styles” group. Next, choose “Manage Rules” from the drop-down menu. A new window will open, displaying all the rules applied to the selected cells. Finally, click on the “Show formatting rules for” drop-down menu and select “This Worksheet” to view the total count of conditionally formatted cells. This method allows you to easily keep track of the number of cells that meet certain conditions in your Excel sheet.
Count Conditionally Formatted Cells in Excel
Often you may want to count the number of cells that are conditionally formatted in Excel.
Fortunately this is easy to do by using the Filter function combined with the SUBTOTAL formula in Excel.
The following example shows how to do so.
Example: Count Conditionally Formatted Cells in Excel
Suppose we have the following dataset in Excel where we have used conditional formatting to add a red background to each value in the points column with a value greater than 30:
Suppose we would like to count the number of cells in this dataset that have been conditionally formatted.
To do so, we need to first filter the dataset to only show the cells with conditional formatting.
Right click on any cell that has conditional formatting, then click Filter from the dropdown menu, then click Filter by Selected Cell’s Color:
The dataset will automatically be filtered to only show the rows that have a red background in the points column:
Lastly, type the following formula into cell B12 to count the number of conditionally formatted rows:
=SUBTOTAL(102, B5:B9)
The formula returns a value of 3.
This tells us that 3 cells from the original dataset have conditional formatting.
The following tutorials explain how to perform other common tasks in Excel:
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