If your company is working with a large list in an Excel spreadsheet, take advantage of the program's built-in filter customization tools to limit the number of rows included in your filter results.

I have a set of spreadsheets where the data (text) is color-coded by row. Would it be feasible to write a formula or script to count how many of what color rows are spread across the workbooks in ...

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn't. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem.