>>Is there an easy way to find the printed text length of a string ??
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>>his is not the same as the output length in a window
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>It depends if your using True Type Fonts. Look in the Help and read up on True Type as compared to standard Fonts.
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>HTH,
>Tom

I am only using true type fonts, The problem is the TXTWIDTH() function returns the string length for the current output device which is the active window, there does not seem to be a straightforward way to get at the length when the output device is the printer.

Thanks,
Paul