format cells having text
 

Hi frends,
I have a question.I have put a lot of charts in the worksheet which are
specific to each person. I put the person's name followed by his/her
charts.then I put the next person's name in the adjacent cell followed by his
charts. So the persons names are not in a single column or row. I would like
to format the cells having the text(persons name) so that they appear
prominent. How do I format the cells with a color and bold text.At present I
am formatting each cell having the name and then applying format painter to
the next cell containing text. But it is taking a lot of time. since I have
a lot of entries. On this worksheet apart from the names, I have not entered
any text or number into the cells. Is it possible to write a formula so that
whenever I enter any text in this worksheet cells, it takes the required
format.
thanking you friends in advance

Select the entire sheet (click the empty grey box just to the left of the
ColA heading)
Use Format/Conditional Formatting
Change "Cell Value Is" to "Formula Is"
In the formula box put =IsText(A1)
Apply whatever formatting you want
Hit OK
Enter some text to see how it works.

Rgds,
ScottO

"steve" wrote in message
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| Hi frends,
| I have a question.I have put a lot of charts in the worksheet which are
| specific to each person. I put the person's name followed by his/her
| charts.then I put the next person's name in the adjacent cell followed by
his
| charts. So the persons names are not in a single column or row. I would
like
| to format the cells having the text(persons name) so that they appear
| prominent. How do I format the cells with a color and bold text.At present
I
| am formatting each cell having the name and then applying format painter
to
| the next cell containing text. But it is taking a lot of time. since I
have
| a lot of entries. On this worksheet apart from the names, I have not
entered
| any text or number into the cells. Is it possible to write a formula so
that
| whenever I enter any text in this worksheet cells, it takes the required
| format.
| thanking you friends in advance

Thank you very much ScottO !,it did work.Thanks for you help.