Have a cell populate with a cell from a list that meets certain criteria

[michaeljwilson1]

Hello,
I am trying to create a soil classification chart that populates a cell with the soil name after the user has entered the required information. So what I have is a list of all the soils and conditional formatting set to highlight the soil that best fits the entered criteria. Is there anyway to have excel copy what ever soil name is highlighted from the list and have that soil name be populated in another cell?

 

[RobertSF]

According to this https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel...nterior-color-set-conditional-formatting.html you can't find cells by their conditional color. You can only determine what color they are set to in formatting. If you can't use a different way of noting the best fit, you would have to replicate in code the conditional calculations.

In other words, suppose you set conditional formatting such that the cell turned green when the number in it was evenly divisible by 3. To find that cell in code, you would have search not for cells conditionally colored green, but for cells with values evenly divisible by 3, and then you would just assume they were colored green.