How To Bold A Cell In Excel

Bold Text in Excel Cells

Bolding Entire Cell Content

To bold the entire content of a cell in Excel, select the cell, then click the bold icon (B) on the Home tab. This change applies uniformly to all text within the cell, as Excel formatting affects the cell's total content.

Bolding with Cell Styles

Excel's built-in cell styles provide a rapid way to apply bold formatting alongside other predefined attributes. Choose a style with bolding from the Cell Styles gallery on the Home tab to ensure consistent formatting across your workbook.

Customizing Font in Cells

You can customize a cell's font style and size, including bolding, via the Font group on the Home tab. Select the cells and then click the arrow next to Font to choose your desired bold font style.

Bolding Text in Pure Text Cells

While a cell containing pure text (not a formula) allows for individual words or sections to be bolded, this flexibility is not available when dealing with cells containing formulas. Formatting in such cells applies equally to all content.

Bolding through VBA

To bold specific parts of a formula's resultant text, a VBA solution is necessary. Implementing a macro can convert formula cells into pure text cells, enabling individual text section formatting, including bolding.

Clearing Bold Formatting

To remove bold formatting, use the Clear Formats option in Excel. This will reset the selected cells to their default formatting without affecting the actual content of the cells.

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