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Posted on 2014-04-03

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What formatting characters do I put in a string of text to make the characters bold and increase the font size when it’s put in a RitchTextBox.

Example:

Dim sTemp As String

sTemp = "This is some sample data " & vbCrLf
sTemp = sTemp & "Make this line Bold and Font Size 13" & vbCrLf
sTemp = sTemp & "Return to font size 10 and not bold "

RichTextBox.TextRTF = sTemp

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Question by:PhilChapmanJr

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by:Kyle Abrahams

ID: 399760542014-04-03

You have to look at the RTF formatting.

The easiest way I've found to do this is create an RTF doc in wordpad.

Put something like bold test on the 1 line
and then look at the formatting form there.

Word has additional things that it can do but not all of them are supported by the .Net rich text box.

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by:Ark

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ID: 399810602014-04-06

Any reason not using standard rtb way?

Private Sub Command1_Click()
   With RichTextBox1
      .Text = ""
      .SelText = "Normal" & vbCrLf
      
      .SelBold = True
      .SelFontSize = 13
      .SelText = "Bold with font size = 13" & vbCrLf
      
      .SelBold = False
      .SelFontSize = .Font.Size
      .SelText = "Normal again"
   End With
End Sub

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