Question

I’ve made a function in VBA for excel that counts the number of cells of a certain color in a range, based on a different cell. This works fine first running the function, however when changing the color of one of the cells in the range to or from the color being counted, the value doesn’t update. How do I get it so the function continuously updates whenever I change the color? Workbook calulations are set to automatic.

Function CountColor(rSumRange As Range)

Dim rCell As Range
Dim iCol As Integer
Dim vResult

iCol = Range("P1").Interior.ColorIndex
For Each rCell In rSumRange
    If rCell.Interior.ColorIndex = iCol Then
         vResult = vResult + 1
    End If
    Next rCell

CountColor = vResult
End Function

Answer 1

Changing color doesn’t trigger the Worksheet_Change() and doesn’t trigger any Application.Calculate.

If your workbook doesn’t have too many formulas, you can try this bulky solution:

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
    Application.Calculate
End Sub