Michel,

If you want marked up text, I'd do the text in HTML and just use the browser control to display it instead of an Editbox. Editboxes can not be "word formatted", the RTF control can be but marking up RTF text IMHO is harder than marking up HTML text.

>A user does a look up on the database and gets a split screen
>(a bit like UT). On the left-hand side could be a photograph,
>and on the right an edit box with an article.
>
>First problem, how can one make specific words in that edit box
>appear italic, bold, bold and underlined ?
>
>Next, how can one make specific words be bold and underlined as
>well as hot spots to which my software will respond as soon as the
>user clicks on a "hot-spotted" word, either to fire up/switch to
>a browser, or to do a further look up on the database ?
>
>David has given me the means to fire up the browser. However, my
>main problem is being able to present to the user text which has
>formatting (underline, italic, bold, or any combination of those)
>and which has hot spots that I can act on when the user clicks on
>them.