>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.

You may download alert.zip from files section - I've done some tricks there for sizing labels based on the length of the text and font used, but you may use that for any other control (beware of the margins, though). There's the full source of it, so you can use it any way you like.