>Hi Dan ---
>
>Have you looked at the SYSMETRIC function?
>
>>What we are trying to do is to determine if the text inside of one cell bleeds over into the next cell. We are using FONTMETRIC to determine the length of a string, but it is returning pixels. The width of a column is in points.

I'm sorry, I did not make this clear. We are writing to an excel spread sheet. We need to compare the width of the spread sheet column to the length of a string.