[rohit92]

Hey guys,
I think this might help me in the future, but I want to use something like
this for school. Say i have this text:
"dog- an animal that barks
cat- an animal that meows"

So what I want to do is select the words before the "-" to make them bold.
The words dog and cat should be bold. Sometimes i have very large lists to do
this with and it gets annoying to constantly select each word and make it
bold.. So let me know if it is possible.

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Select all of the paragraphs and then run a macro containing the following
code:

Dim i As Long
Dim rng As Range
With Selection
For i = 1 To .Paragraphs.Count
Set rng = .Paragraphs(i).Range
rng.End = rng.Start + InStr(rng, "-") - 1
rng.Font.Bold = True
Next i
End With


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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"rohit92" wrote in message
...
Hey guys,
I think this might help me in the future, but I want to use something like
this for school. Say i have this text:
"dog- an animal that barks
cat- an animal that meows"

So what I want to do is select the words before the "-" to make them bold.
The words dog and cat should be bold. Sometimes i have very large lists to
do
this with and it gets annoying to constantly select each word and make it
bold.. So let me know if it is possible.

[Graham Mayor]

I see we have two threads on the same subject

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
Select all of the paragraphs and then run a macro containing the
following code:

Dim i As Long
Dim rng As Range
With Selection
For i = 1 To .Paragraphs.Count
Set rng = .Paragraphs(i).Range
rng.End = rng.Start + InStr(rng, "-") - 1
rng.Font.Bold = True
Next i
End With



Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"rohit92" wrote in message
...
Hey guys,
I think this might help me in the future, but I want to use
something like this for school. Say i have this text:
"dog- an animal that barks
cat- an animal that meows"

So what I want to do is select the words before the "-" to make them
bold. The words dog and cat should be bold. Sometimes i have very
large lists to do
this with and it gets annoying to constantly select each word and
make it bold.. So let me know if it is possible.