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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:39:01 -0700, Steen
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You cannot in Excel.

You can bold portions of strings, but not strings generated by formulas.

with a string in a cell, select the portion you wish bolded, and then select
Bold from the formatting controls.
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Hi again

Any chance that you could help me with converting is to a string and make
the headline part bold?

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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:39:01 -0700, Steen
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You cannot in Excel.

You can bold portions of strings, but not strings generated by formulas.

with a string in a cell, select the portion you wish bolded, and then select
Bold from the formatting controls.
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Copy and Paste Special with turn =A1&A2 in B1 to a string
(Copy B1 and then Paste Special in B1)
Now you can format part of the string.
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Hi again

Any chance that you could help me with converting is to a string and make
the headline part bold?

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:39:01 -0700, Steen

wrote:

You cannot in Excel.

You can bold portions of strings, but not strings generated by formulas.

with a string in a cell, select the portion you wish bolded, and then
select
Bold from the formatting controls.
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:59:01 -0700, Steen
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Hi again

Any chance that you could help me with converting is to a string and make
the headline part bold?

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:39:01 -0700, Steen
wrote:

You cannot in Excel.

You can bold portions of strings, but not strings generated by formulas.

with a string in a cell, select the portion you wish bolded, and then select
Bold from the formatting controls.
--ron



Select the cell in which you have the string concatenation.

Place your cursor in the formula bar.

<F9
<Enter

In formula bar, select "headline part"

Then, either
Press the "B" button on the format toolbar
or
Format/Cells/Font Style BOLD


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Thanks to all, but it dosn't solve my problem, because I want it to be done
automatically - any help on that?

A B C
HeadLine1 Decription1 HeadLine+Desc1 C1= (BOLD(A1)&char(10)&B1
HeadLine2 Decription2 HeadLine+Desc2 C2= (BOLD(A2)&char(10)&B2
HeadLine3 Decription3 HeadLine+Desc3 C3= (BOLD(A3)&char(10)&B3
....

Any help here?
"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:59:01 -0700, Steen
wrote:

Hi again

Any chance that you could help me with converting is to a string and make
the headline part bold?

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:39:01 -0700, Steen
wrote:

You cannot in Excel.

You can bold portions of strings, but not strings generated by formulas.

with a string in a cell, select the portion you wish bolded, and then select
Bold from the formatting controls.
--ron



Select the cell in which you have the string concatenation.

Place your cursor in the formula bar.

<F9
<Enter

In formula bar, select "headline part"

Then, either
Press the "B" button on the format toolbar
or
Format/Cells/Font Style BOLD


--ron

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:03:02 -0800, Steen
wrote:

Thanks to all, but it dosn't solve my problem, because I want it to be done
automatically - any help on that?

A B C
HeadLine1 Decription1 HeadLine+Desc1 C1= (BOLD(A1)&char(10)&B1
HeadLine2 Decription2 HeadLine+Desc2 C2= (BOLD(A2)&char(10)&B2
HeadLine3 Decription3 HeadLine+Desc3 C3= (BOLD(A3)&char(10)&B3
...

Any help here?


As already written, you cannot use worksheet functions to accomplish this.
You'll have to use VBA. You can trigger a macro either manually or
automatically.

This code should get you started with one approach, but requires modifications
for appropriate error checking and column width formatting. You could also
make the code run automatically.

To enter the code, <alt<F11 opens the VB Editor. Ensure your project is
highlighted in the Project Explorer window, then Insert/Module and paste the
code below into the window that opens.

To use this, position the cursor in some cell in Column C. <alt<F8 opens the
Macro Dialog Box. Select the macro and RUN.

======================================
Option Explicit

Sub BoldHeadline()
'Concatenates the two cells to the left of Selection
'Bolds contents of first cell
'Inserts CHAR(10)

Dim HLcount As Long
Dim HL As Range, Descr As Range
Dim Target As Range

Set Target = Selection

For Each Target In Selection
Set HL = Target.Offset(0, -2)
Set Descr = Target.Offset(0, -1)
HLcount = Len(HL.Text)
Target.Value = HL.Text & vbLf & Descr.Text
Target.Characters(1, HLcount).Font.Bold = True
Next Target

End Sub
===============================
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Hi Ron

Thank again - that works fine. Can you help me implement this in the code
below?:

------------------------------------------------------
Private Sub Update_Click()
Dim session
Dim temp
Dim queryDefObj
Dim resSet
Dim status
Dim count
Dim records
Dim reply
Dim filter
Dim strId

'write status
Range("A1").Value = "Opening session..."

'make link to clearquest database and log in
Set session = CreateObject("CLEARQUEST.SESSION")
session.UserLogon "roka", "", "VMP", AD_PRIVATE_SESSION, ""

'write status
Range("A1").Value = "Session opened"

iRowNo = 8
While Range("A" & iRowNo).Value Like "SCO" Or Range("A" & iRowNo).Value
Like "SPR"
'generate VMP000XXX id with precisely 11 chars
strId = "VMP"
While Len(Range("B" & iRowNo).Value) + Len(strId) < 11
strId = strId & "0"
Wend
strId = strId & Range("B" & iRowNo).Value

'define SQL query
sqlString = "select T1.headline, T1.description from " & Range("A" &
iRowNo).Value & " T1 where id='" & strId & "'"
Set resSet = session.BuildSQLQuery(sqlString)

'execute query
resSet.EnableRecordCount
resSet.Execute
Range("A1").Value = "Executing query..."

If resSet.RecordCount() = 0 Then
MsgBox ("Query did not return anything in line " & iRowNo)
End If

'run through data
resSet.MoveNext

For k = 1 To resSet.RecordCount()
Range("C" & iRowNo).Value = resSet.GetColumnValue(1) & vbLf &
resSet.GetColumnValue(2)
resSet.MoveNext
Next

iRowNo = iRowNo + 1
Wend

Range("A1").Value = "Query finished"
End Sub
---------------------------------------------------------

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:03:02 -0800, Steen
wrote:

Thanks to all, but it dosn't solve my problem, because I want it to be done
automatically - any help on that?

A B C
HeadLine1 Decription1 HeadLine+Desc1 C1= (BOLD(A1)&char(10)&B1
HeadLine2 Decription2 HeadLine+Desc2 C2= (BOLD(A2)&char(10)&B2
HeadLine3 Decription3 HeadLine+Desc3 C3= (BOLD(A3)&char(10)&B3
...

Any help here?


As already written, you cannot use worksheet functions to accomplish this.
You'll have to use VBA. You can trigger a macro either manually or
automatically.

This code should get you started with one approach, but requires modifications
for appropriate error checking and column width formatting. You could also
make the code run automatically.

To enter the code, <alt<F11 opens the VB Editor. Ensure your project is
highlighted in the Project Explorer window, then Insert/Module and paste the
code below into the window that opens.

To use this, position the cursor in some cell in Column C. <alt<F8 opens the
Macro Dialog Box. Select the macro and RUN.

======================================
Option Explicit

Sub BoldHeadline()
'Concatenates the two cells to the left of Selection
'Bolds contents of first cell
'Inserts CHAR(10)

Dim HLcount As Long
Dim HL As Range, Descr As Range
Dim Target As Range

Set Target = Selection

For Each Target In Selection
Set HL = Target.Offset(0, -2)
Set Descr = Target.Offset(0, -1)
HLcount = Len(HL.Text)
Target.Value = HL.Text & vbLf & Descr.Text
Target.Characters(1, HLcount).Font.Bold = True
Next Target

End Sub
===============================
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:21:02 -0800, Steen
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Hi Ron

Thank again - that works fine. Can you help me implement this in the code
below?:


I'm not really familiar with SQL queries, but see my suggestion below, inline.

------------------------------------------------------
Private Sub Update_Click()
Dim session
Dim temp
Dim queryDefObj
Dim resSet
Dim status
Dim count
Dim records
Dim reply
Dim filter
Dim strId

'write status
Range("A1").Value = "Opening session..."

'make link to clearquest database and log in
Set session = CreateObject("CLEARQUEST.SESSION")
session.UserLogon "roka", "", "VMP", AD_PRIVATE_SESSION, ""

'write status
Range("A1").Value = "Session opened"

iRowNo = 8
While Range("A" & iRowNo).Value Like "SCO" Or Range("A" & iRowNo).Value
Like "SPR"
'generate VMP000XXX id with precisely 11 chars
strId = "VMP"
While Len(Range("B" & iRowNo).Value) + Len(strId) < 11
strId = strId & "0"
Wend
strId = strId & Range("B" & iRowNo).Value

'define SQL query
sqlString = "select T1.headline, T1.description from " & Range("A" &
iRowNo).Value & " T1 where id='" & strId & "'"
Set resSet = session.BuildSQLQuery(sqlString)

'execute query
resSet.EnableRecordCount
resSet.Execute
Range("A1").Value = "Executing query..."

If resSet.RecordCount() = 0 Then
MsgBox ("Query did not return anything in line " & iRowNo)
End If

'run through data
resSet.MoveNext

For k = 1 To resSet.RecordCount()
Range("C" & iRowNo).Value = resSet.GetColumnValue(1) & vbLf &
resSet.GetColumnValue(2)


-- Insert BOLD routine here

If the above code results in a text string, then something like:

Range("C" & iRowNo).Characters(1, Len(resSet.GetColumnValue(1)) _
.Font.Bold = True

might work.


resSet.MoveNext
Next

iRowNo = iRowNo + 1
Wend

Range("A1").Value = "Query finished"
End Sub
---------------------------------------------------------

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:03:02 -0800, Steen
wrote:

Thanks to all, but it dosn't solve my problem, because I want it to be done
automatically - any help on that?

A B C
HeadLine1 Decription1 HeadLine+Desc1 C1= (BOLD(A1)&char(10)&B1
HeadLine2 Decription2 HeadLine+Desc2 C2= (BOLD(A2)&char(10)&B2
HeadLine3 Decription3 HeadLine+Desc3 C3= (BOLD(A3)&char(10)&B3
...

Any help here?


As already written, you cannot use worksheet functions to accomplish this.
You'll have to use VBA. You can trigger a macro either manually or
automatically.

This code should get you started with one approach, but requires modifications
for appropriate error checking and column width formatting. You could also
make the code run automatically.

To enter the code, <alt<F11 opens the VB Editor. Ensure your project is
highlighted in the Project Explorer window, then Insert/Module and paste the
code below into the window that opens.

To use this, position the cursor in some cell in Column C. <alt<F8 opens the
Macro Dialog Box. Select the macro and RUN.

======================================
Option Explicit

Sub BoldHeadline()
'Concatenates the two cells to the left of Selection
'Bolds contents of first cell
'Inserts CHAR(10)

Dim HLcount As Long
Dim HL As Range, Descr As Range
Dim Target As Range

Set Target = Selection

For Each Target In Selection
Set HL = Target.Offset(0, -2)
Set Descr = Target.Offset(0, -1)
HLcount = Len(HL.Text)
Target.Value = HL.Text & vbLf & Descr.Text
Target.Characters(1, HLcount).Font.Bold = True
Next Target

End Sub
===============================
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Hi Again

Thats worked realy fine - help much appriciated.

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:21:02 -0800, Steen
wrote:

Hi Ron

Thank again - that works fine. Can you help me implement this in the code
below?:


I'm not really familiar with SQL queries, but see my suggestion below, inline.

------------------------------------------------------
Private Sub Update_Click()
Dim session
Dim temp
Dim queryDefObj
Dim resSet
Dim status
Dim count
Dim records
Dim reply
Dim filter
Dim strId

'write status
Range("A1").Value = "Opening session..."

'make link to clearquest database and log in
Set session = CreateObject("CLEARQUEST.SESSION")
session.UserLogon "roka", "", "VMP", AD_PRIVATE_SESSION, ""

'write status
Range("A1").Value = "Session opened"

iRowNo = 8
While Range("A" & iRowNo).Value Like "SCO" Or Range("A" & iRowNo).Value
Like "SPR"
'generate VMP000XXX id with precisely 11 chars
strId = "VMP"
While Len(Range("B" & iRowNo).Value) + Len(strId) < 11
strId = strId & "0"
Wend
strId = strId & Range("B" & iRowNo).Value

'define SQL query
sqlString = "select T1.headline, T1.description from " & Range("A" &
iRowNo).Value & " T1 where id='" & strId & "'"
Set resSet = session.BuildSQLQuery(sqlString)

'execute query
resSet.EnableRecordCount
resSet.Execute
Range("A1").Value = "Executing query..."

If resSet.RecordCount() = 0 Then
MsgBox ("Query did not return anything in line " & iRowNo)
End If

'run through data
resSet.MoveNext

For k = 1 To resSet.RecordCount()
Range("C" & iRowNo).Value = resSet.GetColumnValue(1) & vbLf &
resSet.GetColumnValue(2)


-- Insert BOLD routine here

If the above code results in a text string, then something like:

Range("C" & iRowNo).Characters(1, Len(resSet.GetColumnValue(1)) _
.Font.Bold = True

might work.


resSet.MoveNext
Next

iRowNo = iRowNo + 1
Wend

Range("A1").Value = "Query finished"
End Sub
---------------------------------------------------------

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:03:02 -0800, Steen
wrote:

Thanks to all, but it dosn't solve my problem, because I want it to be done
automatically - any help on that?

A B C
HeadLine1 Decription1 HeadLine+Desc1 C1= (BOLD(A1)&char(10)&B1
HeadLine2 Decription2 HeadLine+Desc2 C2= (BOLD(A2)&char(10)&B2
HeadLine3 Decription3 HeadLine+Desc3 C3= (BOLD(A3)&char(10)&B3
...

Any help here?

As already written, you cannot use worksheet functions to accomplish this.
You'll have to use VBA. You can trigger a macro either manually or
automatically.

This code should get you started with one approach, but requires modifications
for appropriate error checking and column width formatting. You could also
make the code run automatically.

To enter the code, <alt<F11 opens the VB Editor. Ensure your project is
highlighted in the Project Explorer window, then Insert/Module and paste the
code below into the window that opens.

To use this, position the cursor in some cell in Column C. <alt<F8 opens the
Macro Dialog Box. Select the macro and RUN.

======================================
Option Explicit

Sub BoldHeadline()
'Concatenates the two cells to the left of Selection
'Bolds contents of first cell
'Inserts CHAR(10)

Dim HLcount As Long
Dim HL As Range, Descr As Range
Dim Target As Range

Set Target = Selection

For Each Target In Selection
Set HL = Target.Offset(0, -2)
Set Descr = Target.Offset(0, -1)
HLcount = Len(HL.Text)
Target.Value = HL.Text & vbLf & Descr.Text
Target.Characters(1, HLcount).Font.Bold = True
Next Target

End Sub
===============================
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Hi Again

Thats worked realy fine - help much appriciated.


You're welcome. I'm glad it worked and thanks for the feedback.
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I searched on CreateObject("CLEARQUEST.SESSION") and your post turned
up. I'm trying to figure out how to be able to connect to a ClearQuest
session, - then to a particular ticket number, and then to update a few
of the fields. Where would I find the info for how to connect to
ClearQuest? I tried searching IBM's site. There must be a CQ user's
group somewhere?

Thanks for your help,
- Cole


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Hi Again

Thats worked realy fine - help much appriciated.


You're welcome. I'm glad it worked and thanks for the feedback.
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On 6 Nov 2006 14:23:20 -0800, "Cole" wrote:

I searched on CreateObject("CLEARQUEST.SESSION") and your post turned
up. I'm trying to figure out how to be able to connect to a ClearQuest
session, - then to a particular ticket number, and then to update a few
of the fields. Where would I find the info for how to connect to
ClearQuest? I tried searching IBM's site. There must be a CQ user's
group somewhere?

Thanks for your help,
- Cole


Hopefully Steen will see this post. My contribution was merely limited to
bolding a portion of the string. I'm not knowledgeable about the area you are
asking.
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