Lookup value If cell is hilighted

[sahafi]

I need to sum up survey answers from many participants. One section of the
survey have 5 possible answers a participant can select one from (answers are
the same on all rows, from left to right: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The user will
highlight only one answer in each row, and I need to sum up those answers. So
on row 1 if the user highlighted number 3, I need my formula to check all
five cells and lookup the value of the highlighted cell. Something like: If
background is yellow then show value. All the values are numerical values.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

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check these links:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

if you are new to VBA, David McRitchie has some tutorials on his site:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm