text formatting within a calculation?

[stac_1]

Is there a way to format text (make bold or italic) within a calculation? I have a calculation which compiles a list of entries from a number of different fields and I have placed a "name" in front of each entry (the calculation only compiles fields that have data in them). I would like to make the "name" bold. Is there some sort of formatting code that can be entered?

[Chuck]

Scripting can't set the text formatting, although I believe that there is a plug-in to handle this. Another solution would be to use merge fields instead. You can set the formatting of the merge fields individually, so that you could have <<name>> set to be in bold. But if the user needs to copy the data to the clipboard for any reason, this won't work.

Chuck

[stac_1]

Fabulous idea! But, is there a way to set a certain "don't merge field if empty" criteria?