# Reporting change font to bold if value is null

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, reporting\
**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843 "2024-06-13T23:17:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ayanakoji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Ayanakoji](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ayanakoji)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843/1 "2024-06-13T23:17:29Z")

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is this possible in reporting? change the row table font size or font using key expression ?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/e/1e701cf55fc921fc0aeada9dfe468252e3e955a7.png)

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**Author:** ![0sm0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/0sm0/32/15228_2.png) [@0sm0](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/0sm0)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843/2 "2024-06-13T23:45:08Z")

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use something like this to pickup if the value is NULL and change the font size or some other attribute.

```python
t_stamp?"Dialog, Plain, 7":"Dialog, Plain, 12"

```

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**Author:** ![Ayanakoji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Ayanakoji](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ayanakoji)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843/3 "2024-06-13T23:48:51Z")

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> [@0sm0](#):
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> `t_stamp?"Dialog, Plain, 7":"Dialog, Plain, 12"`

I tried this on a table row but its not working, maybe its not possible on font? I'm not sure Thanks for the reply tho!

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**Author:** ![0sm0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/0sm0/32/15228_2.png) [@0sm0](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/0sm0)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843/4 "2024-06-13T23:50:15Z")

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make sure you are NOT using the @ prefix, suffix as in the OP.

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**Author:** ![Ayanakoji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Ayanakoji](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ayanakoji)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843/5 "2024-06-13T23:51:13Z")

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Nvm, this one worked! thank you so much, I tried to preview it again and saw the changes

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**Author:** ![0sm0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/0sm0/32/15228_2.png) [@0sm0](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/0sm0)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reporting-change-font-to-bold-if-value-is-null/91843/6 "2024-06-13T23:52:47Z")

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cool 🙂