<So it can't be done?>
No. You can change some characteristics (Font style, color, underline, strikethrough) using conditional formatting, but not the
font.
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Kind regards,
Niek Otten
| Thank you for replying.
| The only reason I ask - I ran an Excel Advanced training course yesterday
| and went through creating custom numbers, ie. changing the font colour, using
| brackets for negative numbers etc. Because I showed them how to change the
| font colour of positive and negative numbers, a delegate asked if it was
| possible to change the size of the font too whilst we were there.
|
| So it can't be done?
|
| Thanks again.
|
| Louise
|
|
|
| "Niek Otten" wrote:
|
| > Not with the custom format. Why do you want to so it via the custom format? Maybe there is an easy other solution for what
you're
| > trying to achieve.
| >
| > --
| > Kind regards,
| >
| > Niek Otten
| >
| > | Thank you for your reply.
| > | Is it possible then to format the NUMBERS into size 12 font and bold?
| > | Thanks again.
| > | Louise
| > |
| > | "(e-mail address removed)" wrote:
| > |
| > | > correct I'm afraid - custom formats allow you to alter the formatting
| > | > of the number (so you can include symbols, change decimals, format the
| > | > date as month etc) but you cannot change the format of the cell (that
| > | > would be custom cell format, not custom number format) and such an
| > | > option does not exist
| > | > Louise wrote:
| > | > > So is this not possible to do via Format, Cells, Custom?
| > | > > Thank you.
| > | > > Louise
| > | > >
| > | > > "Gary''s Student" wrote:
| > | > >
| > | > > > Hi Louise:
| > | > > >
| > | > > > NumberFormats and font characteristics are separate:
| > | > > >
| > | > > >
| > | > > > Sub Macro1()
| > | > > > Selection.NumberFormat = "yy-mm-dd"
| > | > > > With Selection.Font
| > | > > > .FontStyle = "Bold"
| > | > > > .Size = 12
| > | > > > End With
| > | > > > End Sub
| > | > > > --
| > | > > > Gary''s Student
| > | > > >
| > | > > >
| > | > > > "Louise" wrote:
| > | > > >
| > | > > > > Hi all
| > | > > > >
| > | > > > > When creating a custom number format, how would you ask it to show text in
| > | > > > > 'bold and size 12 font'?
| > | > > > >
| > | > > > > Thank you
| > | > > > >
| > | > > > > Louise
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >
| >
