>>I had a Rich Text Box in which I need to highlight some words. Had someone experience on this ?
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>>Are there another OCX for this ?
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>Select the text in the control to highlight either programatically using the SelStart and SelLength properties, and then set the appropriate property for the selected text, eg:
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>thisform.rtbFoo.SelStart = 10
>thisform.rtbFoo.SelLength = 8
>thisform.rtbFoo.SelBold = .T.
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>would set the 8 characters selected bold programmatically in a control on the form called rtbFoo.

Thanks Ed:

Indeed I had used SelStart and SelLength properties as you say but in a RTF files exist some formatting strings not visible, that prevent to take the exact position of the words to highlight.