I would like to set a cell's fontface to bold if it contains no
formula. I selected format/conditional formatting... then "formula
is" and left the other box blank. This does not do what I want it
to do.

What is the proper way of doing it? Thanks.

you can give this try.

just use a range if you want to narrow it down

Sub Formula_bold()

Dim cell As Range
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
ActiveSheet.Unprotect
For Each cell In Cells.SpecialCells(xlFormulas, 23)
cell.Font.Bold = True
Next cell

Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub



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Gary


"John Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I would like to set a cell's fontface to bold if it contains no
> formula. I selected format/conditional formatting... then "formula
> is" and left the other box blank. This does not do what I want it
> to do.
>
> What is the proper way of doing it? Thanks.

John,
As far as Iknow , you will not be able to achive this with the conditional
formatting tool.
Instead you should create a tool yourself in VBE
Something like :

Sub SetConFormat()
If ActiveCell.HasFormula Then
ActiveCell.Font.Bold = True
End If
End Sub

You could use this in a do... loop to set a area of cell in this format

Hope this will help
Mario

"John Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I would like to set a cell's fontface to bold if it contains no
> formula. I selected format/conditional formatting... then "formula
> is" and left the other box blank. This does not do what I want it
> to do.
>
> What is the proper way of doing it? Thanks.

Created this UDF (In a standard module):

Public Function HasNotFormula(rngCell As Range) As Boolean
On Error Resume Next
If Left$(rngCell.Formula, 1) <> "=" Then
HasNotFormula = True
End If
End Function

Then in the Conditional Formatting Box:
Formula IS =HasNotformula(A1) Format...
Select Bold
OK Out

HTH

"John Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I would like to set a cell's fontface to bold if it contains no
> formula. I selected format/conditional formatting... then "formula
> is" and left the other box blank. This does not do what I want it
> to do.
>
> What is the proper way of doing it? Thanks.