Join bold and non-bold text in one cell

Does anyone know how to combine bold and non-bold text into one cell? For example, let's say you have a name (Matt) that you want bolded and a number (10) that you want regularly formatted. You also want to add a comma and a space. Your new string would look like this: Matt, 10 (with Matt bolded). I've tried using TEXT and CONCATENATE functions, but I always lose the bold formatting.

Take the result of the CONCATENATE() and copy it then paste/special as value.
In this form you can select parts of the string and format them as bold.
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"bkincaid" wrote:

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> Does anyone know how to combine bold and non-bold text into one cell?
> For example, let's say you have a name (Matt) that you want bolded and
> a number (10) that you want regularly formatted. You also want to add
> a comma and a space. Your new string would look like this: Matt, 10
> (with Matt bolded). I've tried using TEXT and CONCATENATE functions,
> but I always lose the bold formatting.
>
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You can't change the format using a formula.

If you had the text "Matt, 10" in a cell, then you could edit the cell
and highlight "Matt" and then turn bold on to affect only this part.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:19:54 -0600, bkincaid
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Does anyone know how to combine bold and non-bold text into one cell?
>For example, let's say you have a name (Matt) that you want bolded and
>a number (10) that you want regularly formatted. You also want to add
>a comma and a space. Your new string would look like this: Matt, 10
>(with Matt bolded). I've tried using TEXT and CONCATENATE functions,
>but I always lose the bold formatting.

The only way I know of to format different parts of a string differently,
within the same cell, is to

1. Have a string in the cell (NOT a formula).
2. Select the particular characters you wish to format and format accordingly.

This can also be done using a VBA macro, but you do have to have a string in
the cell.

If you could give more details on how your data is set up, it should be
possible to construct a macro to do this.
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