I have a report and it must display text from a table, and I am not allowed to just type the text in the report or this would be really easy.
I just want to bold one word in a SQL string, and have it show up bolded in the SSRS report. Is there a way to format strings in SQL Server?
No, you can not. SQL Server stores and manipulates data, but is not meant to format it, let alone trying to apply some kind of visual formatting.