Question

I need to change the value in a cell in Col. A if the value in Col. B is highlighted yellow.

I’ve seen solutions to do the opposite (highlight row/cell based on value in Col. A like: Change background color of more than one cell on the same row when another cell has a certain numeric value in Excel 2010 ), but I need to mark/flag the rows (with a number, like “1”) with highlighting so that I can export this to a statistical program in a .csv or .txt format.

Answer 1

The only way to determine a cells fill colour is with VBA

Here’s a UDF to do it

Function GetCellColour(r As Range) As Long
    GetCellColour = r.Cells(1, 1).Interior.Color
End Function

or if you prefer

Function GetCellColourIndex(r As Range) As Long
    GetCellColourIndex = r.Cells(1, 1).Interior.ColorIndex
End Function

then use it in a cell formula like

=IF(GetCellColour(A1)=65535,"Cell is yellow","")

or

=IF(GetCellColourindex(A2)=6,"Cell is yellow","")