Hi Robert,
since you need to have some sort of control over the formatting, you may store <> restore SelStart / SelLenght of the editbox in the code that manipulates the format.

But there is one question to me (just to be curious): What means ".. can format the marked text .." in an editbox? AFAIK the format of an editbox can only be changed as once. Do you use something like RTF control?

HTH
Agnes

>Hello everybody!
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>I've a question concerning editboxes.
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>In an editbox the user can mark a text and, like in MS Word, he/she can format the marked text using several buttons (font bold, italic,...). Everything works correct but a little bit annoying is that if one formatting is done the selected text is gone and the user has to mark the text once.
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>Does anybody know how I could keep the marked text, so that the user can make several formattings at once?
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>Thanks in advance.