>Is there a formula to dertmine how wide a textbox should be, given font size and maximum characters allowed? For example, I have a textbox that is allowed no more than 5 characters. The textbox uses a times roman 12 point font. How wide should it be to fit the 5 characters without chopping off the last one or having extra space?
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>Michael G. Emmons

Look into FontMetrics parameter 6. I then added 20% to that value and rounded up. It seemed to work for me. This is assuming a field does not consume all "W"'s which are wider that "I"'s in a non-fixed space world.