What happened to my formatting?

[Eric]

In Excel 2003, I have a cell with text. I've applied character formatting to
a couple of words in the text. But when I hit Enter, it disappears.

When I now select the cell and hit F2 to edit it, I can see the formatting
that I applied. But then I then hit Enter, and it disappears again.

What's happening to my formatting? Why can't I see it?

Thanks.

 

[Shane Devenshire]

Hi,

Do you mean you can't see it on the Formula bar or in the spreadsheet after
you press enter?

If you mean on the Formula bar - you never see it there even if you format
it there.

 

[Eric]

I can't see the formatting in the cell on the sheet after I press enter. Not
the formula bar.

The cell contains a couple of sentences of literal text. I've highlighted
one word in red bold. I can only see the red bold it when I select the cell
and hit F2 (edit), and the formatting reappears in the cell. But when I hit
enter, it disappears.

I can't figure out why. (I even checked to see if maybe I had applied
conditional formatting to the cell and forgot about it, but no.)

 

[Melissa in Salem]

In Excel 2003, I have a cell with text. I've applied character formattingto
a couple of words in the text. But when I hit Enter, it disappears.

When I now select the cell and hit F2 to edit it, I can see the formatting
that I applied. But then I then hit Enter, and it disappears again.

What's happening to my formatting? Why can't I see it?

Thanks.

Check to see if you have white as the font color. And I do hope it's
something that easy!

 

[Eric]

Alas, no. The text mostly has font color Auto. There's one word where I've
applied font color red, using the Font Color button on the toolbar.