No Mary, its simply the actual width of the control (in a unit of
measurement called twips) that can be assigned at the time the form is
designed or dynamically when the program is running.

In the case of Legacy where the font can be resized this may well take
place dynamically.

Paul R



On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:04:46 +0000, Mary Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does the width have anything to do with length of words in languages
> other than English?
> Mary Y.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:57:44 -0500, Dennis Kowallek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:32:53 -0600, "Ruth Nerud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I either haven't encountered that problem in any other software, or have
> > >never clicked to the right of the label.
> >
> > Probably the latter. I just tried it in MSIE and another program and they
> > behave the same as Legacy. It all depends on how careful the programmer was
> > when setting the Width property of the control. In Legacy's case, things may
> > be a little more complex because of the auto-resizing font feature. Ken or
> > Dave will have to comment.
> >
> > --
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