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How to preserve a data cell's bold/italics in a linked text box

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Mar 15, 202612265 views
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Suppose I have this formatted text in cell of worksheet : My bold and italic text. I can get this text to show up in a text box in a chart by setting the formula for the text box to this: (Excel changes it to ) That will get the text, but it won't keep the bold and italic formatting. Is there a way…

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Fix for: How to preserve a data cell's bold/italics in a linked text box

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Formulas only reference the value of a cell, not the format data. Unfortunately, there is no way for a formula to reference the formatting of a specific cell, you will have to apply that formatting to the cell, or copy and paste special (all using s…

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