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would it be possible to assign color for a certain letter in a cell
content?e.g all the content of the cell in my worksheet consist of either of
these 4 letters only ( A , P , N , O).can it be that if i type A it would be
in color Blue,and if i type P it would be Green,etc.?
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Yes. You can use Conditional Formatting. See:

http://www.contextures.com/xlCondFormat01.html
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would it be possible to assign color for a certain letter in a cell
content?e.g all the content of the cell in my worksheet consist of either of
these 4 letters only ( A , P , N , O).can it be that if i type A it would be
in color Blue,and if i type P it would be Green,etc.?

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Same answer you got to your post with a different subject line.


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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:25:01 -0700, ai wrote:

would it be possible to assign color for a certain letter in a cell
content?e.g all the content of the cell in my worksheet consist of either of
these 4 letters only ( A , P , N , O).can it be that if i type A it would be
in color Blue,and if i type P it would be Green,etc.?


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