Urgent: Mail merge type report

Hi All,
Reports version 2.5 on NT
I'm not a reports expert so pardon me if it is a simple question.
I'm trying to create a salary certificate for all the employees. This will be a mail merge type of report, where there will be static text embedded with dynamic data from the database.
Now my problem is that I want to print the static text with normal font and DB text in bold style.
I can't use fields for DB columns as then my formatting will go for a toss because the data inside the fields is of variable length.
Please advise on what to do? Any workarounds?
Regards
Naveen

You still need to use a Field object that sources on the corresponding DB column. Set font style of the Field object to "Bold". Set its "Horizontal Elasticity" property to "Expand".
Regards
Sripathy

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