Anthony,
One way, in a cell out of the way somewhere, insert the desired text in the
correct font, size, formatting etc. Then AutoSize the column. Read the
column width.
You may have to use some scaling factor to convert to the units/differences
between the worksheet cell and a Text Frame, but at least it should be
constant.
Otherwise, use a fixed width font and no formatting and just multiply by the
number of characters, if this is practical for you.

NickHK

"Anthony Berglas" wrote in message
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Good idea, but I just tried it and no, that does not work.

The behavior for comment frames seems slightly different to text boxes,
still investigating.

If anyone knows how to write a WidthOfFontedString(characters) then that
would be great.

(And I have set up a "real" news reader, apologies for the multiple
posts. And all the messages now show up on Google. But not in the
search index. I must have just missed them when I checked this morning.)

Thanks,

Anthony

NickHK wrote:

Anthony,
I don't use XL2007, but does it jog the Text frame to the correct size
if
you toggle the AutoSize property:

With <YourTextFrame
.Characters.Text = "Some long line of text spread" & Chr(10) & "over
several" & Chr(10) & "lines"
.AutoSize=false
.AutoSize=true
End with

NickHK

"Anthony Berglas" wrote in message
oups.com...

XL 2007 only seems to AutoSize the Height of a text box, not the
Width.
This is different from XL 95..2003 which autosized both.

This is easily seen from the UI, just create an Autoboxed frame and
type into it, only in XL < 2007 does it get wider.

This makes it difficult to programatically create a text box, and put
some text in it and have the box displayed in a natural width. Same
goes for comments etc.

Any ideas for a work around most appreciated. (Guessing the width of
fonted strings is very error prone.)

Regards,

Anthony