How to find and replace part of a cell with formatted text

Question

In an Excel 2007 spreadsheet I want to find-replace with highlighting part of the text in a cell. Using find-replace reformats the entire cell though.

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Answer 1

The absolute EASIEST WAY to do this with the standard Find & Replace CTRL+F Command is to just "temporary" add-in the "Calibri Font" Character • aka. "black bullet dot"

like this: • sample •

from the Insert Tab --> Symbols --> Calibri Font --> and at the very end)

Thus you can make it much easier to the eyes to read over many rows of excel data,

and easily also later remove it back again to the original with simply again a Find & Replace reversed.

Hope this helps someone, it sure helped my eyes to scan over quicker.

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OLD RESPONSE

the easy non-programming way to do this, is to:

1. paste the text into MS Word

2. Then run the Find & Replace (CTRL+F) there (with the custom formatting changes at the bottom left button under "More > >" and then "Format" to your need customized) - which will then do all the changes perfectly...

3. and then rather than doing a PASTE SPECIAL into Excel (via the Home Tab --> Paste --> Paste Special --> Paste as HTML (so to retain the formatting) (which can and is too memory intensive and too slow for anything above like 1000 rows)

it is better to simply "Save as" from Word the document into a RTF-File, and then just re-import that file into Excel via the simple "Open File".

Excel has a pretty good "repeating pattern cell structuring" recognition, but of course, this workaround may not work perfectly in reproducing the desired cell division every single time, but it should maintain the cell order nevertheless most of the time.

So much for the simple way to do it, until Microsoft stops limiting an option to "highlight/bold" a found-result-text WITHIN a cell, rather than always bolding the entire cell.

Greetings Marko