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.

Need to find cells with specific text? The COUNTIF formula in Excel has got you covered.

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn't. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem.

In Microsoft Excel, you are not just able to count characters in a single/multiple cell, but also specific characters in a cell or range of cells.