Hi Eric,
If you recorded a macro you would have a very good start.

See http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/proper.htm#surname

If not familiar with installing and using a macro see
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm
and once you've installed and used a macro and have a new macro
question it would be better to post in excel.programming
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David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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"Eric" wrote in message ...
I need to format a text cell so the first xx chars in the cell are bold and
the rest are not.

ie: This is the cell text
( and the word "This" is bolded but the rest of the text is regular text)

I can do it by hand but how do you do this with a macro?
Thanks,
Eric