I have a text box in word 2010 document that I use for staging text for a field on another application that only accepts 75 characters. This text box allows more than 75 characters but only the first 75 can be used. What I would like to do is highlight the first 75 characters in this text box to help illustrate what will end up in this 75 character field.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi 14spar15,

You could use a wildcard Find/Replace for a single 'Replace' operation, where:
Find = [!^13]{1,75}
Replace = ^&
and the find font option is set to 'Regular' and the replace font option is set to 'Bold'

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]