engashu: 1.) Have you tried to use a CSV datasource? XML, and Excel files are acceptable datasources as well. I have only used MySQL as a datasource, but since your data is static the afore mentioned datasources should work fine. Not sure of your deployment strategy but this file would need to be accessible to your (deployed) report. 2.) You could change the field 'Markup' to rtf or html. If you don't want to do that then you could split the text; use different fields for plain text and bold text - I'd go for the 'markup'. Hope this gets you started, good luck. Regards