Use these menu commands:

View -> Show Postion
then
Format -> Set Grid Scale {choose pixels)

>How can you control the exact size of your text boxes. I have never seen how to say exactly how many pixels wide you want them.
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>Brenda
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>>It really depends on the font but I always use 7 pixels per character.
>>Rip Ryness
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>>>I have several text boxes on reports that display numeric values from a >>table. I am constantly playing with the boxes to make sure they are large >>enough for the data. Is there an easy way to do this at design time.
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>>>Thanks
>>>Brenda