Counting cells of particular color text in various columns in different sheets in the same workbook

Question

I have a workbook with multiple sheets. One is a MASTER sheet with all of the information with various columns of various pieces of info. There are other sheets that are countin

Answer 1

The nice method used by pnuts, Siddarth, Siddarth, relies on two resources:

1. A method for detecting the text color, =GET.CELL(...).

2. A method for referencing the appropriate cells, OFFSET(INDIRECT("RC",FALSE),0,-1).

Regarding #2, there is another option:

OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN())),0,-1)

PS: It gives exactly the same result, and I personally find this use of INDIRECT easier to understand (the other use comes from the legacy XL4, and it is not documented in current versions). I even use similar formulas, sometimes combined with ADDRESS, directly in worksheet cells.

PS2: This interesting link suggests appending +NOW()*0 to the =GET.CELL(...) formula to ensure automatic recalculation. I found in Excel 2007 it is not needed, for any of the two options for #2 (did I miss something?). It shows also other nice tricks for referring to ranges.