>The default behavior for truncating character strings that are too long to fit in a field object seems to be to truncate starting at the last blank.
> IOW, if the string is "My Big String", and there is only enough room for "My Big Str", VFP will show only "My Big".
> I would like to show all the data that fits (in the above example: "My Big Str"). Is there any way to do this?
> I don't want to count characters and compare this to the width of the field control because we can't accurately know the length of each character.
> Thanks.

The only way I know is to convert spaces between words into some other character, like CHR(183), for example.