setting font of selected text

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I know how to se the font of a regular JTextArea, but how would I get an reference to the selected text and only select that?

Here is what I have so far:

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setFont(new Font(font, style = Font.BOLD, size));
setFont(new Font(font, style = Font.BOLD, size));

this works but changes whole area

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 textArea2.getSelectedText().setFont(new Font("sansserif",Font.BOLD, 12));
 textArea2.getSelectedText().setFont(new Font("sansserif",Font.BOLD, 12));

this doesn't work, and this is what I need..

How can i do this/

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I just read that you can't do this in a JTextArea. Im gonna have to convert to JTextPane.

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it so easy like walking....

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