How to use VBA to change the active cell color ... code; this procedure and others like it have been available online for years. If I knew who to credit, I would. When you select a cell, Excel ...

Furthermore, Excel offers no feature or function ... in other words, you can’t enter =GET.CELL(38,C3) and return the color code for cell C3. Instead, you apply the function to a named range.

Can Excel sort by color? Absolutely. In addition to sorting by values, Excel can sort by cell color, font color, and cell icon. First, you must you must define the colors for your sort columns/fields.