Automatically bold cells containing a specific value?

[ccastell88]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if there is a way with excel to bold certain calls which contain specific characters. Basically i want to bold all the URLs from the list without manually have to do them one by one since its a very large list.

From:

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To:

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I've attached a sample.

I can't use a pivot table to do this.

Cheers,
Chris

[Pete_UK]

You would use conditional formatting to do this. Highlight column A then click on Conditional Formatting | New Rule | Use a formula... , and then enter this formula in the dialogue box:

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),4)="http"

Click on the Format button, then on the Font tab you can select Bold (or Bold Italic for even more emphasis). Click OK twice to exit the dialogue box.

Hope this helps.

Pete

[alansidman]

Here is a VBA solution

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