Selecting before a character to make bold...

[rohit92]

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.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you hold the Alt key, you can use the mouse to select vertically.

Alternatively, you should be able to use Find and Replace.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Select the list and run the following macro:

Dim oRng As Range
For i = 1 To Selection.Paragraphs.Count
Set oRng = Selection.Paragraphs(i).Range
With oRng
.MoveEndUntil "-", wdBackward
.End = .End - 1
.Bold = True
End With
Next i

If there is no list selected, the macro operates on the paragraph containing
the cursor.

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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