Dear David,

summarized: as Big Brother would say: it is by design.
(Like built-in-machine-slowdoner in every MS Win version)

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>Bela,
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>I think the issue is that VFP doesn't set the width property of am AutoSize label until the label is first painted on the screen. I have had to delay any method code that uses the .Width until very late (like Form.Activate()). You might be able to use the UIEnable event for your purpose.
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>>sublassed label control, with AutoSize set .t.
>>Put it on a non active (non visible) page of a visible pageframe.
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>>Setting the caption of this label, its size won't change untill the page - containing this label -, become active.
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>>You can check this only programatically! (Don't forget, when you click to this page, the label will resized automatically!)