Comments on: Count Bold Cells in a Range

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:15:33 +0000

Max -

Make sure you didn’t copy any non-printing characters. Try deleting the line and retyping it.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:55:35 +0000

Thank you for this, this is a very helpful tool. However, I receive an error message when I try to do this. In the VBA window, it highlights the first ‘dim’ in the function and says,
“Compile error:
Expected: end of statement”
Can you please tell me what this means and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
Also, I should add that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:03:44 +0000

Anon – I would be reluctant to tie up the processor like that.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:40:02 +0000

what about a query that runs every second to count the formatted stuff.
Would that work?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:00:49 +0000

Adam -

The formatting recognized by VBA is the formatting applied to the cell in the absence of any conditional formatting being turned on. It is possible to write your function so that it also checks the condition, and returns the formatting for that condition. You can either hard code this, or write code to examine the conditions for each cell, and determine which apply, and then extract the formatting, then count the cells.

Did I make it sound complicated? It’s even more complicated than that. I wish I could tell you otherwise.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:21:29 +0000

OK, got this. Evidently Excel will not run User Defined Functions, unless you enable macros, and play with the security a little. I’m over that, and have this working.

However, the function counts cells correctly if they are bold.

But, if I have Conditional Formatting set, that makes a particular cell BOLD because it fits some criteria, that cell will NOT be counted by this function.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Adam