Mike,

To make your function more universal replace the 7 with fontmetric() getting the average character width if your field is mixed case or getting maxwidth if the field is uppercase.

>Hi Alan,
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>>What is the formula to calculate the proper width of each column?
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>Here's what I use:
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>size = iif(FieldSize < 3, 20, FieldSize * 7 + 4)
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>I use AFields, so the third element is what I use for FieldSize, but you may want:
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>size = iif(fsize(field(lnI)) < 3, 20, fsize(field(lnI)) * 7 + 4)
>
>This Help?