Question

I am using Office 2011 for Mac, in the Excel application, is it possible somehow to read how many cells in a row are red colored?

Answer 1

Here’s an AppleScript that returns the column & row numbers of cells that have a red fill. Or are you looking for a language other than AppleScript?

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    tell active sheet
        set lastColumn to used range's last column's first column index
        set lastRow to used range's last row's first row index

        set redCells to {}
        repeat with columnCounter from 1 to lastColumn
            repeat with rowCounter from 1 to lastRow
                if column columnCounter's row rowCounter's interior object's color is {255, 0, 0} then
                    copy {columnCounter, rowCounter} to end of redCells
                end if
            end repeat
        end repeat

        return redCells
    end tell
end tell

I bet that a single-line script like tell application "Microsoft Excel" to tell active sheet to return every cell of used range whose interior object's color is {255, 0, 0} would run faster, but I can’t figure out the exact wording.