How to bold the string in formula

Change the formula to this:

IF {Print_Patients.Pfe}<> "" THEN
"<b>Functional Enquiry: </b>" & {Print_Patients.Pfe};

Then once you save and close the formula editor, right click the formula and choose format field.
Under the Paragraph tab, change the Text Interpretation drop down to HTML Text

I checked under text interpretation only options are rtf text or none.

What version of Crystal?

You can do a similar thing using the RTF bold/unbold formatting.

mlmcc

i am using crytal reports which is in visual studio 2003.

It might be easiest to create the text outside of Crystal and save it as an RTF then open the file with Notepad and copy it into Crystal.

mlmcc

You could also just put it in a text object, bold the label, and then format it to conditionally suppress if {Print_Patients.Pfe}=""

VS2003 version doesn't have the HTML interpretation.  You can still use bdreed's suggestion, just do the rtf interpretation and surround your text with rtf tags.  For bold:

"This is \b bold \b0"

frodoman

How will i use the rtf tags for bolding "functional enquiry"
IF {Print_Patients.Pfe}<> "" THEN
"Functional Enquiry: " & {Print_Patients.Pfe};

IF {Print_Patients.Pfe}<> "" THEN
"\b Functional Enquiry: \b0" & {Print_Patients.Pfe};

Note that you'll need to set the interpretation to rtf for this to work - otherwise you'll actually see \b and \b0 in your output.

I did set that. It still shows \b Functional Enquiry\b0 in output.