Font showing smaller

[Cor van der Bliek]

I have this strange problem.
Of a set of 5 identical textboxes (there are each other's copies) 2 show a
smaller font when the form is active.
The font used is Tahoma normal 8pt, but it shows as 6-7pt.
Deleting one and copying a correct one does not change this effect.
Is looks the same as the 8pt boxes when I change the font to 9pt.
I ran the form on mutiple PC's, same result.

Can't figure it out.

 

[Russ]

Thanks for the help on the unwanted underline issue in too small text boxes
on userforms in the beginners forum.

On this subject, I'm just fishing for more information.
Is this a on-line document form or a userform dialog form?

Is it location, location, location? ;-)
Are the non-normal font boxes in different sections?
If you move a 'good' box next to a 'bad' box, does it change its behavior?
Does something similar happen to another similar type font?
If you copy and paste a 'bad' box into a new blank document, does it change
its behavior?

 

[Cor van der Bliek]

See answers below:

Thanks for the help on the unwanted underline issue in too small text boxes
on userforms in the beginners forum.

On this subject, I'm just fishing for more information.
Is this a on-line document form or a userform dialog form? userform dialog box

Is it location, location, location? ;-) i don't understand this
Are the non-normal font boxes in different sections? sections in a userform?
If you move a 'good' box next to a 'bad' box, does it change its behavior?

it disappears. In fact if i even change top 1 pt is it allroght again, as
are the other boxes after postion changes

 

[Russ]

See below:

See answers below:


i don't understand this

Location, location, location is a famous American saying about what affects
real estate property values. And the next few questions I was going to pose
were going to be about whether the location of the textboxes were going to
affect the action of the textboxes.

sections in a userform?

True, no sections in a userform. I wasn't sure what type of form you were
talking about.
But userform frames can sometimes cause weird behavior.

it disappears. In fact if i even change top 1 pt is it allroght again, as
are the other boxes after postion changes

So are you building these forms dynamically each time they are used?
Otherwise I would try to rebuild the form and if it was good, forget about
the original form.

all boxes are Tahoma normal 8

Did you test another font and/or size by changing what is used in the
textboxes through the textbox properties window and then try to copy and
paste?

they act normal then

Now that I know that we are talking about userforms I would change that
question to "if you copy a bad one into a new blank userform does it become
good?"

I got a feeling it might be a 'frames' issue.

 

[Cor van der Bliek]

Russ,
seems the matter is solved by changing the postion of the textboxen (all put
on the userform by hand), sometimes even with just 1 unit.
I had 5 boxes boxes of 17 units height with Top set at 240, 257, 274, 291,
308, each one exactly positioned beneath the previous. 2 of them showed the
smaller font.
I've changed the Tops to 240, 258, 276, 294 and 312 and made a small gap of
1 unit this way and the problem was solved.

Don't see any further issues, do you?

 

[Tony Strazzeri]

This is a known problem. Changing the position ot size of the control
(sometimes even by a fraction of a point) will fix it. You can find
out more about this by searching these groups. There was a fair bit
of discussion about four or five years ago in which I posted a similar
problem.

Cheers
TonyS.