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Re: Insert Text into Box - Becomes Overset

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From: Brian C. Carter
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:38
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Okay, sorry I was a bit short.

Doing a catalog, where a text string from an Access database will be put into a box. Box can be any size. Text is then formatted. If text is put into an box and that oversets, it cannot find the text to format it (im using a paragraph counter to assign styles to paragraph items). Not only that, but if it continues to put text into overset box, the text will be out of order.

Now normally I would say decrease point size of paragraph item until overset = false, however it can't find the paragraph item to change the size.

I suppose I COULD make the boxes bigger to begin with, but then I would just end up with formatted overset text, which would be a help, but not too much.

Maybe what I should have asked was: Is there anyway to base the point size of text based on the WIDTH of the longest line without having massive amounts of test text boxes?

Oh VB, btw. That's the problem with getting comfortable in a forum ;-) Ya forget you're really a stranger.
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