excel vba: make part of string bold

Question

I have excel cells which contain entries like this:

name/A/date
name/B/date
name/C/date

Cell content is displayed on multiple lines in the

Answer 1

Inspired by various research in the last few days:

Dim totalVals, startPos(), endPos(), i, j, strLen As Long
Dim currLine As String

' Split the cell value (a string) in lines of text
splitVals = Split(ActiveCell.Value, Chr(10))

' This is how many lines you have
totalVals = UBound(splitVals)

' For each line, you'll have a character where you want the string to start being BOLD
ReDim startPos(0 To totalVals)

' And one character where you'll want it to stop
ReDim endPos(0 To totalVals)

' The value of the current line (before we loop on ActiveCell.Value) is empty
currLine = ""

For i = 0 To totalVals ' For each line...

    ' Length of the string currently treated by our code : 0 if no treatment yet...
    strLen = Len(currLine)

    ' Here we parse and rewrite the current ActiveCell.Value, line by line, in a string
    currLine = currLine & IIf(currLine = "", "", Chr(10)) & splitVals(i)

    ' At each step (= each line), we define the start position of the bold part
    ' Here, it is the 1st character of the new line, i.e. strLen + 1
    startPos(i) = strLen + 1

    ' At each step (= each line), we define the end position of the bold part
    ' Here, it is just before the 1st "/" in the current line (hence we start from strLen)
    endPos(i) = InStr(IIf(strLen = 0, 1, strLen), currLine, "/")

Next i

' Then we use the calculated positions to get the characters in bold
For j = 0 To UBound(startPos)
    ActiveCell.Characters(startPos(j), endPos(j) - startPos(j)).Font.FontStyle = "Bold"
Next j

It might be a bit overdone, butI have tested it and it works like a charm. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Have it now:

lngPos = InStr(ActiveCell.Value, "/")
With ActiveCell.Characters(Start:=1, Length:=lngPos - 1).Font
    .FontStyle = "Bold"
End With