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Sociobright
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Jun 05, 2021
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highlight exact match text in cells automatically

Is there a  way to highlight (in bold ) the part of the text in a range of cells that is exact match with a text in a specific cell?

e.g. cellA1 text is SUN
and the function to scan all cells which will contain SUN within and make it bold.
e.g.  CellB2 text: i love SUNshine

  • Sociobright 

    Here is a macro:

    Sub MakeTextBold()
        Dim TextToFind As String
        Dim Cell As Range
        Dim CellAddress As String
        Dim Pos As Long
        Application.ScreenUpdating = False
        TextToFind = Range("A1").Value
        With Cells
            ' Change MatchCase:=False to MatchCase:=True if the search should be case-sensitive
            Set Cell = .Find(What:=TextToFind, LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlPart, MatchCase:=False)
            If Not Cell Is Nothing Then
                CellAddress = Cell.Address
                Do
                    Pos = InStr(1, Cell.Value, TextToFind, vbTextCompare)
                    Do While Pos
                        Cell.Characters(Start:=Pos, Length:=Len(TextToFind)).Font.Bold = True
                        Pos = InStr(Pos + 1, Cell.Value, TextToFind, vbTextCompare)
                    Loop
                    Set Cell = .FindNext(After:=Cell)
                    If Cell Is Nothing Then Exit Do
                Loop Until Cell.Address = CellAddress
            End If
        End With
        Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    End Sub

9 Replies

    • Sociobright's avatar
      Sociobright
      Copper Contributor
      Thanks Nikolino, I really appreciate your help. If you can help with VGA that will be amazing 🙏
      • NikolinoDE's avatar
        NikolinoDE
        Gold Contributor

        Sociobright 

        Here is another example with VBA.

        Press the Text Merge button and everything should appear as you want.

         

        Thank you for your understanding and patience

         

        I would be happy to know if I could help.

         

        Nikolino

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