Hi All This might be of interest to some of you, I use this strategy to control the seize an placement off text in a mapinfo table 1: first i open a mapper with my text table, set the coordsys and get the windowid 2: i then use this function to recalculate the zoom of my mapper. The trick is by creating a dummy text and getting the seize of this text i can calculate a zoom that gives me the correct seize of my text '''''''''''''''''''''' Set mapper window WinId CalculateZoom(myTextHeight, WinId) function CalculateZoom(byval h as Float, byval winId as integer) as Float dim o as object, s as string, x, y as integer, ymin, ymax, dy, z, NewZoom as float Set Distance units "m" Set style font("Univers", 1, 72, 0 ) ' Set style font lFont s = "Test string" x = MapperInfo(winId, mapper_Info_centerx) Y = MapperInfo(winId, mapper_Info_centery) o = CreateText(winId, x, y, s, 0, 0, 0 ) ymin = ObjectGeography(o, obj_Geo_miny) ymax = ObjectGeography(o, obj_Geo_maxy) z = mapperInfo(winId, mapper_info_zoom) dy = yMax - yMin NewZoom = z / (dy / h) * 1.667 CalculateZoom = NewZoom End Function 3: i can now use the CreateText() function to place any text in any angel at the correct seize in my table, i can even justify it to the center left or right. 4: if i have to use another text height i just recalculate the zoom Peter Laulund Natioanl Survey and Cadaster, Denmark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]