>Thanks, Cathy. I had read about that at some point in trying to nail this down, but it seemed I had to make the fields a good bit wider and I didn't think that it would have affected it quite that much. I was expecting only a fairly miniscule change. Do you know the reason for this? It would seem they could make the newer technology draw the same characters in the same abount of space . . .

Nope .. I can't explain what is going on under the hood. My knowledge lies in FoxPro ... not GDI.