Many thanks to all who replied. It seems there are a couple of ways to
approach this.
1. Find the arrow in the workspace and manually change the point size - the
new upper limit becomes 720 pt, unless that was a typo and should have been
72 pt. The latter was big enough for me.
2. Yannick Leduc and Tim Nuteson suggested another route (quote is from Tim
N.):
"The trick to getting around this Mapinfo problem is to add the
north arrows as text instead of symbols.
For example, to add a big compass-rose type arrow, go into the layout, type
an exclamation point. Then, double-click and change its font to Mapinfo
Arrows. Change its size, color, etc. to what you need. To see which
arrows correspond to which keystrokes, check out
Start-Programs-Accessories-Character Map for the MI Arrows font."
3. A third method is to use a map window containing a nice north arrow and
put it in your layout inside a frame. Jason Adam, Leith Britt and Edward
Davis sent me some pre-made .tab files containing lots of nice examples.
I'll forward it to anyone who's interested.
Thanks again everyone.
_____________________________
Tim Warman
Geologist & GIS Specialist
Richard C. Slade & Associates
North Hollywood, CA
(818) 506-0418
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