1)
not supported

2)
look in character map application (or in later versions of Excel, insert
symbol)

What does this do for you:

msgbox "water freezes at 0" & chr(176) & " degrees"


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Donny" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:151e01c50d41$22093030$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Two things i'm stuck on to do with message boxes are
>
> 1) How to make a part of a message stand out in bold or
> colour.
>
> 2) How to use a degrees sign for celcius
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Don Blackman