Characters.delete only works with less than 255 characters?

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I'm having an interesting bug... in vba, Characters.delete only works on cells that have less than 255 characters, but I can change the color with no problem. Check this out... post this in a workbook in cells A1 and A2 respectively:

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Then select A1 and run this macro:

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See how it works fine for the first entry, but the second only colors, but doesn't delete font?

How can I work around this?

mexindian, try this:

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Artik

xladept... thanks for trying, but you can't change the values of the cell after the formatting (also even search/replace doesn't work).

Arti K solved it... first read WHERE the formatting changes are required, then delete, then reapply formatting. Smart way to do it, thanks! This is solved.

@ mexindian

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Thanks Cutter, will keep in mind henceforth

Even tho this is solved, I figured I'd share my final iteration in case it's useful for anyone...

Even though Artik's solution worked perfectly, I found a problem in the case I needed to delimit by more than one thing... what this macro does is it finds any of four characters, then deletes that specific character, then paints everything between the preceding ":" and that character. Depending on which of the four characters it finds, it paints things different colours. Since it deletes first, and applies the formatting later, this allows me to not have to worry about cells that have more than 255 characters.

It's cool because as I delete the characters (or more correctly, replace them by blank), the position in the cell changes, but we can account for it by simply counting how many deletions we make.

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