>>>>>>On a form I take into account the the font, fontsize and field size to determine the .Width setting for controls. How do I do the same thing in the Report Designer?
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>>>>>Hello Colin
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>>>>>You can determine the default font in the report, then drop the fields directly from your project manager.
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>>>>What about calculated and concatenated values that aren't created by drag and drop? Also, what about when I need to change the font size of different fields?
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>>>Well, I merely offered the basic solution for the table/view fields; I'm afraid you'll have to solve the hard way.
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>>I'm probably not asking this right, so let me try another way. You place a field control on the report that will contain a value of type C10. The field control now takes up a certain amount of space on the report. Now you want to size the control big enough to allow for the maximum value and also small enough to prevent dead space on the report. How do I determine the size of the control?
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>I did understand your question, Colin, but I too am dealing with that issue quite often and still do it manually, i.e. the hard way.

David F. gave an interesting suggestion that I might try in the future. For now though, because I'm in a hurry to finish these reports, I'm changing the grid scale to pixels in the Reports Designer and sizing as close as possible. Thanks for the input.