Hey guys,
I think this might help me in the future, but I want to use something like
this for school. Say i have this text:
"dog- an animal that barks
cat- an animal that meows"

So what I want to do is select the words before the "-" to make them bold.
The words dog and cat should be bold. Sometimes i have very large lists to do
this with and it gets annoying to constantly select each word and make it
bold.. So let me know if it is possible.

Select all of the paragraphs and then run a macro containing the following
code:

Dim i As Long
Dim rng As Range
With Selection
For i = 1 To .Paragraphs.Count
Set rng = .Paragraphs(i).Range
rng.End = rng.Start + InStr(rng, "-") - 1
rng.Font.Bold = True
Next i
End With


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"rohit92" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:99BA3FC8-F7F2-4625-8353-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hey guys,
> I think this might help me in the future, but I want to use something like
> this for school. Say i have this text:
> "dog- an animal that barks
> cat- an animal that meows"
>
> So what I want to do is select the words before the "-" to make them bold.
> The words dog and cat should be bold. Sometimes i have very large lists to
> do
> this with and it gets annoying to constantly select each word and make it
> bold.. So let me know if it is possible.

I see we have two threads on the same subject

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
> Select all of the paragraphs and then run a macro containing the
> following code:
>
> Dim i As Long
> Dim rng As Range
> With Selection
> For i = 1 To .Paragraphs.Count
> Set rng = .Paragraphs(i).Range
> rng.End = rng.Start + InStr(rng, "-") - 1
> rng.Font.Bold = True
> Next i
> End With
>
>
>
> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
> "rohit92" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:99BA3FC8-F7F2-4625-8353-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hey guys,
>> I think this might help me in the future, but I want to use
>> something like this for school. Say i have this text:
>> "dog- an animal that barks
>> cat- an animal that meows"
>>
>> So what I want to do is select the words before the "-" to make them
>> bold. The words dog and cat should be bold. Sometimes i have very
>> large lists to do
>> this with and it gets annoying to constantly select each word and
>> make it bold.. So let me know if it is possible.