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    <p>I am trying to delete the first occurrence of "&lt;" and ">" in a cell without losing formatting of the remainder of the cell's contents.</p> <p>I have looked in several places here, and other, to no avail.</p> <p>This is what I am trying to do:</p> <p>Say "A1" contains the text:</p> <pre><code>"This is &lt;a&gt; long string with several &lt;occurrences&gt; of a &lt;special&gt; character." </code></pre> <p>In any case, What I am trying to do is remove the ">", and in a perfect world the "&lt;", from the first word which contains them while maintaining the bold formatting as well as the "&lt;" and ">" on the next word containing them.</p> <p>This is ONLY other code executing prior to the code I am having issues with.</p> <pre><code>inTx = Range("A2").Value outTx = Replace(inTx, "Init_Day", Range("A3").Value) Range("A2").Value = outTx </code></pre> <p>Which replaces the <code>&lt;placeholder&gt;</code> text with the actual text, a two digit number in this case.</p> <p>Here is the code that is not working for me:</p> <pre><code>SearchString = Range("A2").Value Char1 = "&lt;" Char2 = "&gt;" For i = 1 To Len(SearchString) If Mid(SearchString, i, 1) = Char1 Then startPos = i Exit For End If Next i For i = 1 To Len(SearchString) If Mid(SearchString, i, 1) = Char2 Then endPos = i Exit For End If Next i Range("A2").Characters(startPos, endPos - startPos).Font.Bold = True Range("A2").Characters(startPos - 1, 1).Delete </code></pre> <p>All code works fine until I reach the last line:</p> <pre><code>Range("A2").Characters(startPos - 1, 1).Delete </code></pre> <p>then nothing happens.</p> <p>I've even tried:</p> <pre><code>Range("A2").Characters(startPos - 1, 20).Delete </code></pre> <p>Still nothing...</p> <p>I know this should be easy but I can't seem to figure it out.</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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    1. CO`Range("A1").Characters(9,1).Delete` works fine for me. What does the rest of your code look like? There must be a problem somewhere else. I'm guessing that line is not even running.
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    3. COTo explain, because of Excel's constraints on either all bold, or all non-bold text in formula cells, I have developed a work-around where I have added <placeholders> in a cell of text where I can overwrite the <placeholder> with the value output from a formula cell, and bold it, all is working great except for getting rid of the actual <> characters.
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