Would anyone happen to know how to go about setting the
character attributes (bold, italic, ...) for a subset of
the characters within a string?

A particular example might clarify.
Suppose cell A10 contained the string: Mary
Suppose further that I wish to set the contents of cell C20
with: =CONCATENATE("I want ",A10," to go to the store.")

Now, how might I go about having the string copied from A10
take on bold or italic characteristics? I don't want to have
to place it in a separate cell and adjust the cell widths for
different length words...

A search of Excel's standard built-in functions didn't turn
up anything helpful, at least to my eye.

Any clues?

Cell formatting cannot be set by formulas. It is possible using code,
Try this link tp Chips site, he is good,
Regards,
Alan.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel.htm
"Greg Neill" wrote in message
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Would anyone happen to know how to go about setting the
character attributes (bold, italic, ...) for a subset of
the characters within a string?

A particular example might clarify.
Suppose cell A10 contained the string: Mary
Suppose further that I wish to set the contents of cell C20
with: =CONCATENATE("I want ",A10," to go to the store.")

Now, how might I go about having the string copied from A10
take on bold or italic characteristics? I don't want to have
to place it in a separate cell and adjust the cell widths for
different length words...

A search of Excel's standard built-in functions didn't turn
up anything helpful, at least to my eye.

Any clues?