>I'm sure this has been asked before, but the search isn't working. Is there a formula that will take the font, font size, and the number of characters and return what width the textbox should be set to? I realize proportional fonts make things harder, but if it used an average character width, that would be fine.
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle

Michelle,
Try:
Txtbox1.Width = Txtbox1.Maxlength*fontmetric(7,Txtbox1.Fontname,Txtbox1.FontSize)

You will also have to take into account the attributes like Bold, Italic, etc. You can build a string based on those properties and pass that as the fourth parameter to Fontmetric.