It's easy, Dave. Just set all of the characters to the right of the "<<Fi" string to a font size of 1. It's the size, font and style of the first "<" that controls for the following text.
Bill Holt www.notesoft.com On Wed, September 17, 2008 14:12, David O'Donnell 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. > > -- > David O¡¯Donnell ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Director of I.T. ? ¢Ï +1 703/421-2610 > >
