>Hi Anton and Herman
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>I tried out your suggestion for using TXTWIDTH() but it gave me a much more conservative widths as it depended on the string passed to it (in all probablity it is an empty string form the cursor). Well for now I will stick to FONTMETRIC(6, ...) * LEN(fld) * 1.15 <g>
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Sorry, I didn't think of empty string. I don't know how you populate the cursor, so I can't give anymore idea on this.

Good luck