The LEN() command will tell you how many characters there are, but I don't think that will help too much unless you're using truetype fonts - where all the characters take up the same abount of space.

>I seem to be having a problem calculating the length of a text string. I tried the txtwidth() function and and fontmetric() function as shown in the txtwidth() help examle and I am getting nowhere. All I want to do is find the lenght of a string so I can auto size the box or command button it appears in.
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>As usual, many thanks to all who help.
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>John J. Henn.