Hi:
The font_weight of the title is automatically bold, so what you have to do is turn off the bolding (via a style override) for the words you DON'T want bolded. This is using ODS ESCAPECHAR to provide a style override for the piece of the string where you want to turn bolding off.
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/099-2007.pdf (paper about ODS ESCAPECHAR in SAS 9.1 with a preview of ESCAPECHAR in 9.2)
http://www.nesug.org/proceedings/nesug08/np/np10.pdf (more about Escapechar in 9.2)
cynthia
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%let def = xxxxxxxx;
%let recent = 99999;
ods html file='c:\temp\testunder.html' style=sasweb;
ods escapechar='^';
proc print data=sashelp.class;
TITLE5 italic j=left colour=black height=9pt "Definition: ^S={font_weight=medium} &def"
j=center " Most Recent Observation: ^S={font_weight=medium}&recent"
j=right "Date/Time: ^S={font_weight=medium}&sysdate / &systime";
run;
ods _all_ close;
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