Use a frame or a table cell and the height of the 'box' can be configured to
adapt to the amount of text.
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"Lloyd Catlett" wrote in message
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With given text I want to calculate the minimum width (and height) needed
in
a textbox to contain the text. I suppose it depends on the font (duh!),
but
how would I do the calculation?
Word 2000, XP
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