Lookup absolute and relative cell references in the Help files.

Also check out these links:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/relative.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;820204

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HTH,

RD
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"Eric" wrote in message
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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