>I have a report/letter which builds up a string with the list of patient names and inserts them into a paragraph on the letter.
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>The question is how can I bold just the names?
>Would it be simpler to generate HTML and then print that?

Hi Geoff,

Will your users have Word or Excel available? Have you considered automating Word or Excel and doing your report that way? You'll have a lot more control in the formatting. You can bookmark the place where the names go and then just navigate there to insert the text.