You could use a UDF

Function SumBold(rng As Range)
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In rng
If IsNumeric(cell.Value) Then
If cell.Font.Bold Then
SumBold = SumBold + cell.Value
End If
End If
Next cell
End Function


Call such as =SumBold(A2:a20)

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i have a column of prices (ie - $25, $40...) and i want to be able to
acquire only the sum of the numbers that i bold in that paticular
column while keeping the unbolded numbers ignored for the equation
is this at all possible, if so how?
thanks for any help


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