Substring colouring from Excel VBA: why do some obvious methods not work?

Question

I\'ve been building some interesting visualizations that rely on VBA code\'s ability to set different colours for substrings in Excel. For a cell containing a string the syn

Answer 1

Formatting (including coloring) substrigns in a range of excel cells with a macro, see the video:

http://youtu.be/O0h6T5Z7HwY