Bold is a property of the Font object. The Boolean value of Bold is either
True or False. It has nothing to do with the Range Object.



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In the Help for Font Object, there is this example code:

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:C5").Font.Bold = True

The help also says that the Font property returns a Font object.
Assuming that the property returns a value rather than a reference,
I'm imagining an actual construct that exists apart from the range
itself, containing fields that describe the font(s) used within the
range. I'm trying to understand how assigning a True to one of the
member fields in the Font object (the Bold field) causes True to be
propagated back to the actual range cells. In C++ vernacular, has the
assignment operator "=" been overriden?

Thanks