How to Search Italic Text (Range) using Excel VBA

Search Formatted Text using Excel VBA / Extract Italicized Range using Excel VBA / Excel VBA Tag Italic Text

The following code identifies the Italic text and ‘tags’ them

Sub Tag_Italic()

Dim oWS As Worksheet

Dim oRng As Range

Dim FirstUL

Set oWS = ActiveSheet

Application.FindFormat.Clear

Application.FindFormat.Font.Italic = True

Set oRng = oWS.Range("A1:A1000").Find(What:="", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:= _

xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, SearchFormat:=True)

If Not oRng Is Nothing Then

FirstUL = oRng.Row

Do

oRng.Font.Italic = False ' Use this if you want to remove italics

oRng.Value2 = "" & oRng.Value2 & ""

Set oRng = oWS.Range("A" & CStr(oRng.Row + 1) & ":A1000").Find(What:="", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:= _

xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, SearchFormat:=True)

Loop While Not oRng Is Nothing

End If

End Sub

In the above code we have used

Application.FindFormat.Clear

Clears the criterias set in the FindFormat property and then set the format to find using

Application.FindFormat.Font.Italic = True

Italic Formatted Text in Excel

Formatted Text replaced by Tags in Excel