colored text in textbox...............

is there a way to make only certain words in a textbox, a different color than the rest?

ony if you use a RichTextBox

ok, if im using a rich text box, how would i do it?

'I personally haven't really played with this
'it's code that I found and put away for a rainy day

[code]
'change the color of text in a RichTextBox

Sub PrintMessage(MessageText As String, MessageColor As Long, RTFBox As RichTextBox)
RTFBox.SelStart = Len(RTFBox.Text)
RTFBox.SelText = MessageText
RTFBox.SelStart = RTFBox.SelStart - Len(MessageText)
RTFBox.SelLength = Len(MessageText)
RTFBox.SelColor = MessageColor
RTFBox.SelStart = Len(RTFBox.Text)
End Sub

' <<<<<<< event code >>>>>>

PrintMessage "This is a sample message in RED." & vbCrLf, RGB(255, 0, 0), RichTextBox1

If you want a multicolored line use like this:
PrintMessage "Green part ", RGB(0, 255, 0), RichTextBox1
PrintMessage "Blue part" & vbCrLf, RGB(0, 0, 255), RichTextBox1

Note you put vbCrLf only when you want to end the line.
Of course, you can use QBColor instead of RGB, or system color constants, or the color hex value.

[code]

Try this.

Code:

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Option Explicit

Private Sub HighlightText(sKeyword As String, iColour As Long)

    Dim nStart As Integer, sPrevChar As String, sNextChar As String
                       
    nStart = InStr(1, LCase(RichTextBox1.Text), sKeyword)
                                                                                         
    Do While nStart <> 0
        If nStart > 1 Then
            sPrevChar = Mid$(RichTextBox1.Text, nStart - 1, 1)
        Else
            sPrevChar = " "
        End If
                                                       
       
        If Len(RichTextBox1.Text) >= nStart + Len(sKeyword) Then
            sNextChar = Mid$(RichTextBox1.Text, nStart + Len(sKeyword), 1)
        Else
            sNextChar = " "
        End If
                                                         
       
        If (sPrevChar = Chr(32) Or sPrevChar = Chr(13) Or _
        sPrevChar = Chr(10) Or sPrevChar = Chr(9)) And _
        (sNextChar = Chr(32) Or sNextChar = Chr(13) Or _
        sNextChar = Chr(10) Or sNextChar = Chr(9)) Then
            With RichTextBox1
            .SelStart = nStart - 1
            .SelLength = Len(sKeyword)
            .SelColor = iColour
            .SelText = UCase(sKeyword)
            .SelStart = Len(RichTextBox1.Text)
            .SelColor = vbBlack
            End With
        End If
                                                 
        nStart = InStr(nStart + Len(sKeyword), LCase(RichTextBox1.Text), sKeyword)
    Loop

End Sub

Private Sub RichTextBox1_Change()

    With RichTextBox1
        .SelStart = 0
        .SelLength = Len(.Text)
        .SelColor = vbBlack
        .SelStart = Len(.Text)
    End With
                               
    ' Add more custom words here
    HighlightText "blue", vbBlue
    HighlightText "yellow", vbYellow
    HighlightText "red", vbRed
    HighlightText "magenta", vbMagenta
    HighlightText "green", vbGreen
 
End Sub

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