How to automatically highlight / bold words in a JTable cell?

how do i do it?
i have an Object called Data (where toString() is the same as getDataName()).
and i want the JTable to either highlight or bold specific words (using the bold HTML tags) that are present in a SortedSet.
i do not want the dataName to be changed by directly manipulating the Object because the Data Objects were taken from the DB and i need the Objects and the records to be synchronised, and because the words in the SortedSet itself are subject to changes (add/edit/remove).
thanks.

Edit: removed
db
Cross posted
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Edited by: Darryl Burke

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