No, you don't quite follow me, Ron. After I type my text, I press enter.
Then I edit the text, bold that part of the text I want bold, and press
enter. I don't have rich text formatting. But if I press F2, I can see the
text is bold. At that point I can press Enter or ESC, either way the RTF
goes away. I tried the same maneuver on my lap and presto, I have RTF. I try
it on my old computer with Excel 2000 and I have RTF, so I know how to do
it. It absolutely won't work on my desktop with Excel 2007, and I have no
idea why.

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:20:51 -0600, "John" wrote:

Oops. I meant escape, not exit. Sorry.

I'm still stumped as to why RTF won't work.


It's not working "BECAUSE" you are hitting the <esc key.

If you do anything in the formula, and hit <esc, you are canceling your
actions.

Hit the <enter key.

--ron