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How do I change the font color and make it bold within a formula? I am
trying to link two different cells with text in them to one cell and I
would like to have the color and font weight changed for just one of
the links. For example...

A1=1
A2=2

I want B1 to show 1(black normal font), 2(red bold font)

Thanks.


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What you want is called Conditional Formatting. See Excel Help.
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"jdurrmsu" wrote:


How do I change the font color and make it bold within a formula? I am
trying to link two different cells with text in them to one cell and I
would like to have the color and font weight changed for just one of
the links. For example...

A1=1
A2=2

I want B1 to show 1(black normal font), 2(red bold font)

Thanks.


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Formulas don't support that type of formatting--and neither do real numbers.

Only Text supports it.

jdurrmsu wrote:

How do I change the font color and make it bold within a formula? I am
trying to link two different cells with text in them to one cell and I
would like to have the color and font weight changed for just one of
the links. For example...

A1=1
A2=2

I want B1 to show 1(black normal font), 2(red bold font)

Thanks.

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Formulas can only return values, including text, but cannot change formatting
of those values.

After returning the value with a formula you could copy and paste
specialvalue then manually edit the result in the formula bar.

Or you could use VBA to achieve the same result.


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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:59:28 -0500, jdurrmsu
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How do I change the font color and make it bold within a formula? I am
trying to link two different cells with text in them to one cell and I
would like to have the color and font weight changed for just one of
the links. For example...

A1=1
A2=2

I want B1 to show 1(black normal font), 2(red bold font)

Thanks.


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