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I realise there have been discussions on this before, but i couldn't find that told me exactly what i need to do.

Anyway, my program generates a line of text that looks like this:

< B>First text goes here<D> Then the rest goes here.

The text is then placed in a text frame in indesign. Then text inbetween the < B> and the <D> needs to be made bold and the tags need to be removed.

I wrote up some routines to remove the tags and find the number of characters 'in' from the end where the bold will stop. Then I got stuck trying to find out how to select that certain text and make it bold.

While reading some threads on here it seems like tagged text would be a better way to do it, but I am unable to 'Place' the text from an outside file like you would normally do when importing tagged text. Is there a way to import a line of tagged text (it'll be a string) into a text frame but make it use the tagged text formatting?

If not, how do I manually select a certain number of characters in a text frame and then make them bold?

thanks.