Text compare

[gunnahafta]

Hi. Im bit of a noob so please go easy. I have a line of text in A1 and a very similar, but different, line of text in B1. I want to grab B1 and paste it into C1 and highlight, or bold whatever, every difference in B1 from A1. Preferably down to character, space, upper\lower case etc. I search the internet and found the below VBA which when reading it seems to make sense. However when I try to run it I get syntax errors when compiling I think on line "If (ActiveSheet.Range("A1").Characters(i, 1).Text <>"

Can anyone help with this syntax problem? Im not a VBA guy but I use Google and I cant find the smoking gun.

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Also one other thing. Assuming I can get this to work i'd then like to run it across a range of rows in one go. e.g. From A1:B1 through to A100:B100 etc. How do i loop it like that?

Thanks.

[FDibbins]

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I have added them for you - this time