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    <p>You are exactly right with your general approach:</p> <blockquote> <p>I need to break apart the string – find the author – bold it – and leave the others as default. Like an array….</p> </blockquote> <p>Sounds like you want to do this at the report level instead of in SQL.</p> <p>If you are using SSRS 2008 or later, where you can use placeholders, then this is how I would accomplish this:</p> <ol> <li><p>Create three calculated fields in your dataset, within the report.</p> <ol> <li><p><strong>LeftOfAuthor</strong>:</p> <p><code>=LEFT( Fields!BigString.Value , Instr( Fields!BigString.Value , Parameters!5aAuthor.Value) - 1 )</code></p></li> <li><p><strong>Author</strong>:</p> <p><code>=Parameters!5aAuthor.Value</code></p></li> <li><p><strong>RightOfAuthor</strong>:</p> <p><code>=RIGHT( Fields!BigString.Value , LEN(Fields!BigString.Value) - Instr( Fields!BigString.Value , Parameters!5aAuthor.Value) + LEN(Parameters!5aAuthor.Value) )</code></p></li> </ol></li> <li><p>Now put three placeholders into the text cell you need this displayed within. Set each to refer to one of these calculated fields, in order.</p></li> <li>Select the middle placeholder (for Author) and bold it.</li> </ol> <p>The formulas above presume that the author name has an exact match somewhere in the field. You'll need to add error handling if it might not be. They were not tested in any way, so may need some tweaking.</p> <hr> <p>Some alternate approaches include breaking the string up in SQL and/or enconding the string with HTML <code>&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</code> tags for display, then setting SSRS to display it as HTML.</p>
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    1. COThanks, I will give it try this afternoon... The problem I ran into using the 'alternate approaches (SQL)' is: My skillset and creating the Cross Apply with a parameter in SQL and more confusing is this is a Sub Report and I'm not very familiar with SSRS. Thanks again..
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    2. COThe sub report will look like Table 6 Publications column. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/datatables_sampleall.pdf Thanks again..
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