That's the wierd thing - my font's set to Arial 9

but the bold is still narrower?

>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?