What kind of format do you use in the cell?
If I use for example the format _(@_) or the Accounting format then I can't bold individual characters, but using the General format
I have no problems.

Regards
Hans


"dixielady" skrev i en meddelelse ...
In excel 2003, when I highlight only a few words of text within a cell and
select bold, the text reverts back to plain. The entire cell reverts back to
whatever formatting was used first. I didn't have this problem previously
and can't figure out how to get only the selected text to stay bold. This
happens in most, but not all cells. A few cells allow me to highlight only
selected text.