Comments on: Sort by Color in Excel 2003

By: vinu

vinu — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:01:41 +0000

Hi Sam,

could you please brief me how it works internally your formula…what does it mean “get.cell”

How to sort by color « Excel Tips Monster — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:01:29 +0000

[...] offers a rather simple solution: Add a color-index column, with a user defined function that fetches the color, and sort by that. [...]

datapig — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:43:41 +0000

Very cool Sam.

sam — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:31:54 +0000

1.Select Cell B1
2.Define a Name (CTRL+F3) called ColorNum
=GET.CELL(63,OFFSET(Sheet2!B1,0,-1))
or
=GET.CELL(63,Sheet2!A1)

3.Select a cell and type = ColorNum
This will return the fill color of the adjacent cell