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In my Google Spreadsheet, I have a lot of text in a cell and want to highlight a small portion of this text with a particular colour.

But, whenever I try to do this, the formatting gets applied to the entire contents of the cell. Are there any settings to enable formatting for partial cell contents?

According to a discussion on Google Product Forums, this feature was not available back then (till 2009). Has this feature been implemented yet or is not possible to do this at all in Google Spreadsheets?

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It is not possible. You cannot format a portion of a cell's text. You can only format the whole cell.

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  • My question was, How to apply formatting to the text after selecting it? When I select a part of the text in a cell and apply text colour to it, the colour gets applied to the entire contents of the cell. How do I apply the colour only to the slected text?
    – Hashken
    Jun 14, 2012 at 16:25
  • updating answer. You can't format the text separately within the cell. Jun 14, 2012 at 16:40

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