Styling individual words in scrolling text interaction Captivate 7

Does anybody know if it is possible to style only a portion of text that is being shown within the Captivate 7 scrolling text widget?
For example, at the moment if I select a word that I'd like to make bold the entire content of the text pane is made bold, same with italic and underline.
Any solution needs to be HTML5 compatible.
Thanks in advance.

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It would definitely be useful if the styling worked properly, afterall, the options are shown in the editor so one can only think that it's a bug. I could even live with it if it accepted HTML markup.
Re: your question, I put together a basic test using the Scrolling Text Interaction populated with lorem ipsum text and it seems to work as desired.
I tested on Windows Vista Pro in Safari, IE9 and Chrome. I also tested on iPad running iOS7. I published in HTML5 only.
The only thing (other than the styling issue mentioned above) was that the text pane seems to sit about 20px lower in the published file than it does on the Captivate stage. Not ideal when laying out individual content screens but not the end of the world to have to nudge the pane up in my working file.

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