Hi Geoff,

You may check the following thread Re: Part of the string - in Bold Thread #461366 Message #461374

Just recently we discussed the same problem with Gregorio, and AFAIK he was trying richtext control. Unfortunately, I don't have experience with it.

>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.
>>>
>>>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.