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>However another factor to take into consideration is the greater amount of space required for the equivalent french text. I believe this has been estimated at 33% (and 50% for German). When your forms and controls are enlarged to allow for this the English version may start to look a bit 'spacey' and badly designed. We sub-classed all the English forms for French and German versions and just enlarged (and in some cases re-arranged) the labels, controls etc in the sub-classes.
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>Using the same code base does mean seperate compiles for each language but, in our case, retaining the look of the English version was paramount.
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>Regards,
>Viv

You mean that the French text will take up around 33% more space in text terms, hmm. No doubt I will have to design longer labels.

Thanks a lot for your help, before I had the requirement to post a query <g>.