My guess is that there are spaces in the second string. In Excel, "Smith"
is different to "Smith ". Use the Trim function to get rid of spaces...
you can use it in your Macro.

"Alex" wrote in message
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Hello

I built a macro that will go through a list of data and higlight in bold
type cells that are of a certain value. The values are text e.g. Smith,
Jones, etc.

I get new values each month from an external source in a .xls file. If I
right click those new values they are formatted as general with alignment
general and bottom.

That format is exactly the same as the ones in the excel sheet that I
paste
the new values to. However, when I run my macro it fails to highlight
cells.

For example, suppose for May-05 I have 'Smith' in cell A1 and for Jun-05 I
have 'Smith' in cell A2. When I ask the macro to highlight all values
called
'Smith' it only highlights A1 and not A2.

When i check the fomat of the cells they are exactly the same. Why is this
happening?

Possible clue: when I cut and paste the from cell A1 to A2 the 'Smith' in
cell A2 shifts position slightly as if it weren't formatted exactly the
same
as A1. However, I cannot find out why that disparity is occuring.

Any thoughts would be useful...

Thanks

Alex