format cells having text

[steve]

Hi frends,
I have a question.I have put a lot of charts in the worksheet which are
specific to each person. I put the person's name followed by his/her
charts.then I put the next person's name in the adjacent cell followed by his
charts. So the persons names are not in a single column or row. I would like
to format the cells having the text(persons name) so that they appear
prominent. How do I format the cells with a color and bold text.At present I
am formatting each cell having the name and then applying format painter to
the next cell containing text. But it is taking a lot of time. since I have
a lot of entries. On this worksheet apart from the names, I have not entered
any text or number into the cells. Is it possible to write a formula so that
whenever I enter any text in this worksheet cells, it takes the required
format.
thanking you friends in advance

[ScottO]

Select the entire sheet (click the empty grey box just to the left of the
ColA heading)
Use Format/Conditional Formatting
Change "Cell Value Is" to "Formula Is"
In the formula box put =IsText(A1)
Apply whatever formatting you want
Hit OK
Enter some text to see how it works.

Rgds,
ScottO

"steve" <steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:906AEC2D-8561-4BB5-8E8E-5675C4FB0B09@microsoft.com...
| Hi frends,
| I have a question.I have put a lot of charts in the worksheet which are
| specific to each person. I put the person's name followed by his/her
| charts.then I put the next person's name in the adjacent cell followed by
his
| charts. So the persons names are not in a single column or row. I would
like
| to format the cells having the text(persons name) so that they appear
| prominent. How do I format the cells with a color and bold text.At present
I
| am formatting each cell having the name and then applying format painter
to
| the next cell containing text. But it is taking a lot of time. since I
have
| a lot of entries. On this worksheet apart from the names, I have not
entered
| any text or number into the cells. Is it possible to write a formula so
that
| whenever I enter any text in this worksheet cells, it takes the required
| format.
| thanking you friends in advance

[steve]

Thank you very much ScottO !,it did work.Thanks for you help.