The only method I can think of is to create calc fields with shortened field 
names where the values is equal to the corresponding long-named field.

Good luck
Chuck

FileMaker Pro Discussions <[email protected]> on Wednesday, 
September 17, 2008 at 11:12 AM -0700 wrote:
>A former FileMaker developer at my company managed to insert merge fields
>into a layout that were "smaller" than their field names. That is, if the
>field name was "FieldName", the merge field would normally be inserted as
>"<<FieldName>>" but he managed to make it so that the field appeared as
>"<<Fi". (The width was smaller and the height remained constant at one line
>high.) This is great when trying to put merge fields at the right hand
>margin of layouts so the horizontal scrollbar doesn't constantly show up and
>mess up the appearance.
>
>I can't for the life of me figure out how he did this, and Google is not
>being my friend when I try to search for it. Does anyone have any
>super-secret tip on how to accomplish this magic? I'm designing a new
>database that would benefit from it.
>
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