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Selecting a word before a character to make bold...
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. |
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Selecting a word before a character to make bold...
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 -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my 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. |
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Selecting a word before a character to make bold...
I see we have two threads on the same subject
-- 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. |
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