Formatting text with getSelectedText()

I hope I am in the correct forum for this question.
I want to format the text contained in a JTextField by double-clicking on the word(s),and then clicking a JButton labelled "Bold".
I am able to capture the text , using getSelected() but where do I go from here?
Thanks in advance for any replies.

You can't change the text attributes for selected text on a JTextField. You can change the Font, but this is used for the entire text field not just the selected text. You need to use a JTextPane for this. Read this section from the Swing tutorial on "General Text Features" for a working example:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/generaltext.html

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