Using the same shortcut keys to highlight text in Mail, Excel and Word

Thanks for sharing these! I've been meaning to work out AppleScripts for similar formatting macros in Excel for some time, and your post both helped me figure out some of what I wanted to do and inspired me to finally take the time to set them up. In case they're of use to anyone else, I've taken the liberty of attaching the new additions to my Excel-only macro group below (my apologies for the long image; hopefully it displays properly):