Form Fonts Too Big

[Nolene]

A form I designed looks fine on my computer and on another user's computer in
my office. However, for a different user, the caption fonts on the form are
really large and cause the form to look all wonky. The table width doesn't
expand to fit the extra-large font -- I want a fixed width table to ensure
that it prints on one page.

It does print correctly. I'm not using a print view, just printing the form
from the default view.

The desktop on the wonky user looks like she's using standard sized fonts --
the icons and such aren't really big, so what could be causing the form's
fonts to supersize?

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

InfoPath can be affected by the font size setting in Internet Explorer.
Likely your user has fonts set differently in Internet Explorer, which can
be changed to the View->Text Size menu.

Brian

 

[Nolene]

She's viewing these forms in InfoPath. IE settings affect how InfoPath looks?

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

InfoPath uses HTML for display of its forms, so a very small number of IE
settings affect how InfoPath forms behave. This can be one of them.

 

[Nolene]

I've done a little more testing ... I complete the form on my computer, email
to two people. For one user it looks fine (in the email she received), for
the wonky one the fonts are the correct size, but the form is narrow and
causes some of the longer captions to go to two lines.

She does have the IE text settings at medium (the same as mine), but her
screen resolution is 1280x1024. However, when she changed the resolution down
to 1024x768, she said it looked the same, just bigger (she's at a remote
site).

I'm flummoxed as to why only hers looks weird.

Another odd thing ... I have an expression box that is hidden until a choice
is clicked, then it appears to give some instruction, but is hidden again
once another subsequent field is filled in (I don't want the instructions to
print). The person I email the form to doesn't see this expression box, but
if she replies back, it shows again!