Hi Will,

You're probably using a non-proportional font. Try this change and see what you get.

>Don't really know which section to put this under...
>
>Just something I found out about which I thought people might find interesting.
>
>Do the following in the command window
>

>_screen.fontbold = .F.
_screen.fontname = "Arial"
>? _screen.textwidth('HELLO')
>_screen.fontbold = .T.
>? _screen.textwidth('HELLO')
>

>I always assumed that bold text would be wider than normal text?
>
>Eh?