Excel does not have a built-in feature to sum or count cells by color, but this can be achieved using three methods: Filtering with Subtotal, Name Manager with Helper Columns, or Custom VBA Functions.

You can automatically have cells turn certain colors based on the text within those cells. This is easily done using one of the many types of conditional formatting.

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.

Want to to alternate row colors in Excel? You can apply color in alternate row & column in Excel spreadsheet using Conditional Formatting.