Hi Garry

Try pressing a character key. If it works right then the old text will be replaced by your
entry, colored or not. I've had no problems with code like that on any Windows platform
either.

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HTH. Best wishes Harald
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"Garry Jones" wrote in message ...

I took the exact same file home on a diskette to windows 98, excel 97
and the text was highlighted.

Can it matter that I am reading in the text as control source?

Maybe my friend is missing a setting for colour of highlighted text?

Garry Jones