>Fred,
>
>When I issue:
>
>? TXTWIDTH("Client", "Arial", 9)
>
>in the Command Window, it returned 6.400.
>
>This is obviously not the correct Width setting for the textbox. Am
>I missing somehting?
>
>Thanks

My bad. TXTWIDTH() will return the number of characters using the average size in pixels of the font. You could then use FONTMETRIC() element 6, I believe as a multiplier to get the length. Sorry about that.