Sort Excel (2003) Sheet By Color

[wyvern621]

Happy Monday All...

I have a spreadsheet with a few thousand rows, some of which are highlighted in color--the highlight goes completely across the row. Is there a way to sort a spreadsheet by color?

Thanks in advance...

ChiTownDiva

 

[xlbo]

short answer: no

long answer: if you can replicate the logic that has changed the colour of the cells, you can use the same logic in a formula to return a number which can then be sorted on

Rgds, Geoff

We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colours but they all live in the same box.

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[gizmo1973]

I think there is a VBA way to do this but I'm not that good at it so I bought a system called ASAP utilities which lets you sort by colour as well as other things, always worked for me

P.S. I am in no way connected to the app. just use it as an end user myself

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[AnotherHiggins]

If you do wish to go with a VBA solution, code to do this has been posted on Tek-Tips before. If you need help with that, please create a new thread in forum707.

But I think it is much better to go with Geoff's idea and use the same logic behind why the rows are colored in the first place.

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