Hi Cindy

I should have mentioned that unfortunately I cannot rely on Word or Excel being there. I did think that it could possibly somehow in wordpad but that is as far as I got with that thought.

Regards
Geoff

>>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?
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>Hi Geoff,
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>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.