I would like to know if we can find out the Color of the CELL with the help of any inline formula (without using any macros)
I'm using Home User Office package 2010.
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Color is not data.
The Get.cell technique has flaws.
That does not surprise, since the Get.cell uses an old XML command, i.e. a command from the macro language Excel used before VBA was introduced. At that time, Excel colors were limited to less than 60.
Again: Color is not data.
If you want to color-code your cells, use conditional formatting based on the cell values or based on rules that can be expressed with logical formulas. The logic that leads to conditional formatting can also be used in other places to report on the data, regardless of the color value of the cell.
Anticipating that I already had the answer, which is that there is no built-in worksheet function that returns the background color of a cell, I decided to review this article, in case I was wrong. I was amused to notice a citation to the very same MVP article that I used in the course of my ongoing research into colors in Microsoft Excel.
While I agree that, in the purest sense, color is not data, it is meta-data, and it has uses as such. To that end, I shall attempt to develop a function that returns the color of a cell. If I succeed, I plan to put it into an add-in, so that I can use it in any workbook, where it will join a growing legion of other functions that I think Microsoft left out of the product.
Regardless, IMO, the ColorIndex property is virtually useless, since there is essentially no connection between color indexes and the colors that can be selected in the standard foreground and background color pickers. See Color Combinations: Working with Colors in Microsoft Office and the associated binary workbook, Color_Combinations Workbook.
No, you can only get to the interior color of a cell by using a Macro. I am afraid. It's really easy to do (cell.interior.color) so unless you have a requirement that restricts you from using VBA, I say go for it.
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