TL;DR Key Takeaways : 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 ...

Variations You can use GET.CELL to return a lot of information. The value we used, 38, returns a cell’s fill color. For instance, to sum the values, you’d use 5 instead of 38 when creating the ...

Continuing with the example, change the formula to "=Sum (Electronics!A1:G20,Peripherals:Services!A1:G20)" to only total the cells in sheets Electronics, Peripherals and Services.

Click on the cell in which you want Excel to display the sum, and then click the AutoSum icon (Epsilon, ∑) from the Home menu. This will insert the Sum function into the cell.

How to use AutoSum in Excel AutoSum works best when you have a column or row of numbers you want to add up. 1. Click the empty cell underneath the column of numbers that you want to add up. Or, if ...