I think you may be right. It would be easier by hand. Good luck with the job search and thanks for the help.
Geoff
>I think, in your case it would be probably easier to do it without Report designer (by hand).
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>BTW, I designed that report using Vlad's idea and it looked almost good. But shortly after that we discontinued that product :)
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>And now I'm in Columbus and still looking for a job... :(
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>>Hi Nadya
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>>That should work but leaves me with a small problem the paragraph needs to potentially wrap over multiple lines.
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>>I can feel a sore brain coming on. Hehehehe.
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>>>Hi Geoff,
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>>>You may check the following thread
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>>>Just recently we discussed the same problem with Gregorio, and AFAIK he was trying richtext control. Unfortunately, I don't have experience with it.
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>>>>Hi Cindy
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Regards
>>>>Geoff
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>>>>>>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.
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