I think, in your case it would be probably easier to do it without Report designer (by hand).

BTW, I designed that report using Vlad's idea and it looked almost good. But shortly after that we discontinued that product :)

And now I'm in Columbus and still looking for a job... :(

>Hi Nadya
>
>That should work but leaves me with a small problem the paragraph needs to potentially wrap over multiple lines.
>
>I can feel a sore brain coming on. Hehehehe.
>
>>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?
>>>>
>>>>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.