>>Taken together, this will give you a much more accurate pixel size to render a string.
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>I really thought this would work. It does not even come close. My oldwidth * (len()/Len()) comes a whole lot closer then that does. The widths in the reports start in the thousands, in this case (8000.000), and the FONTMETRIC() comes up with (32.000). I end up with dashes in my reports, not labels.
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>So, that does not work for what I am doing. Thanks anyway.
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>Any other suggestions??
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>Beth

AFAIK you need to convert to report's units, but I don't remember what they are.