One more thing Your timing is good... This example is more relevant to your questions regarding the Outlook multiline listview. To get two or more fonts per line (in this case normal and bold) DrawText is called twice per line. Draw the left most text, set the left rect element to the width of the leftmost text plus a few added pixels to indent, then draw the right most text. Text metrics measuring code is needed to replace the hard coded values used for setting left rect and top rect GetStr