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    <p>I would like to highlight in red and bold every instance of a word/phrase in the selected column of my Excel sheet (using Excel 2010). For example, if columns A1:A10 contain the sentence, "The brown fox likes the other brown fox," I would like to highlight every instance of "brown fox" in this range.</p> <p>I found a macro <a href="http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/26200-cells-there-code-bold-color-word-s-cell-2.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> which highlights only the first instance of "brown fox" in every cell:</p> <pre><code>Sub colorText() Dim cl As Range Dim startPos As Integer Dim totalLen As Integer Dim searchText As String ' specify text to searh. searchText = "brown fox" ' loop trough all cells in selection/range For Each cl In Selection totalLen = Len(searchText) startPos = InStr(cl, searchText) If startPos &gt; 0 Then With cl.Characters(startPos, totalLen).Font .FontStyle = "Bold" .ColorIndex = 3 End With End If Next cl End Sub </code></pre> <p>I'd like to edit this macro so that it highlights every instance of "brown fox," not just the first. As an attempt, I tried the following:</p> <pre><code>Sub colorText() Dim cl As Range Dim startPos As Integer Dim totalLen As Integer Dim searchText As String Dim endPos As Integer Dim testPos As Integer ' specify text to search. searchText = "brown fox" ' loop trough all cells in selection/range For Each cl In Selection totalLen = Len(searchText) startPos = InStr(cl, searchText) testPos = 0 Do While startPos &gt; testPos With cl.Characters(startPos, totalLen).Font .FontStyle = "Bold" .ColorIndex = 3 End With endPos = startPos + totalLen testPos = testPos + endPos startPos = InStr(testPos, searchText) Loop Next cl End Sub </code></pre> <p>However, this still only formats the first instance of "brown fox."</p> <p>Any thoughts/edits would be much appreciated.</p>
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