It's not really practical to try and do that unless you were using a fixed
pitch (non proportionally spaced) font. If you were, then by trial and
error, you could set the cell dimensions to exact values that allowed only
the required number of characters to be displayed.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Hello,

I'am using a 'mergefield' statement in a Word XP table wich takes out data
from a SQL server database. The contents of this field can be as long as
20 caracters. The problem however is that in Word I only need the first 7
caracters. How can make the cel formatting the tekst this way ?

Thanks in advance

Hein