Preventing text from wrapping without using a truncate calculation?

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If the contents of a field is too long to display I want it to simply get cut off without wrapping to the next line. I have tried adjusting the line spacing to try and push the wrapped text down low enough to where it's not visible but this prevents the first line from being displayed so that it is vertically centered. Does anyone have a trick for doing this?

I wish FileMaker would add a simple "truncate text" checkbox to the field inspector options so I would not have to resort to writing multiple truncate calculations to get my layout to display how I want it.

[Raybaudi]

A merge field ?

[bcooney]

You could create a calc field that shows Leftwords ( ) and "..." and tooltip the field with the actual field.

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A merge field ?

A merge field wraps the same as a standard field. :(

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You could create a calc field that shows Leftwords ( ) and "..." and tooltip the field with the actual field.

Yes, thanks, that's where I am at now. I am just tired of monkeying around with calculations to solve simple display issues.

I cannot believe that in FM12 we still have to change the font size of merge field text to constrain the bounding box to the size that we want. This seems like something that should have been fixed/improved in the second revision of merge fields. How many years ago was that?