To color-code specific text, select the cells that contain (or will contain) the text that you want color-coded. In the example above, I have selected cells B2:B27.

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The default active cell format in Microsoft Excel isn't all that easy to see, but you can use this easy-to-implement code solution to change that.

Excel offers plenty of functions, but sadly, none of them can be used directly to calculate the count of color-coded cells. Also, there’s no built-in way (whatsoever) to do so in Excel.

We’ll tackle that next. How to count the color codes As is, the matrix returns the fill color codes for each cell in the data set. Using COUNTIF (), we can easily count the blue cells in each row.