Hi guy's again, thank you all for your input
I still can't get the <mark> String </mark> tag to highlight the string result but picking out your suggestions, this does a nice job of making "ON Hold" stand out, I may change my other status results in a colour accordingly ie:
green is ok
yellow not in stock
etc
Code:strStatus = "At DMT Currently " & strFontStart & "<B>" & "<font color='red'>" & UCase(rs.Fields("Status")) & "</B></font>" & strFontEnd