Copy Mixed Formatting to New Cell

[dedebing]

I am trying to come up with a way to have the exact contents of one cell in another cell and retain the text format.

For example: Cell A2 "Item I-34 NVG Inspection - complied with 100 hour inspection. Next due 123.3" and when I link it to another cell, the text formatting is removed and I end up with "Item I-34 NVG Inspection - complied with 100 hour inspection. Next due 123.3" No bold, no italic, no color.

Is there any function/formula that will return the contents of the cell exactly as they are formatted? Using format painter, it picks up just the bold. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[iliace]

I just recently ran into a similar problem. The short answer is, no, you cannot copy this kind of in-cell formatting. You cannot even read it. You would have to read the XML of the file, find the data elements that need to be formatted in each sheet, and then programmatically modify the styles.xml like so:

< fonts count="3" x14ac:knownFonts="1">
< font>
< sz val="11"/>
< color theme="1"/>
< name val="Calibri"/>
< family val="2"/>
< scheme val="minor"/>
< /font>
< font>
< sz val="11"/>
< color theme="1"/>
< name val="Calibri"/>
< family val="2"/>
< scheme val="minor"/>
< /font>
< font>
< sz val="11"/>
< color rgb="FFFF0000"/>
< name val="Calibri"/>
< family val="2"/>
< /font>
< /fonts>

All to make everything beginning at character 11 red.

It's not worth it. Your best bet is to make the changes manually, or else program your file to format the values via VBA, at runtime, before each file is saved.

 

[dedebing]

Ok, I was afraid of that! Thank you for responding!