Thanks Steve!  Your answer was helpful but I really want the text to shrink to fit the box.  I LOVED that you sent a sample PDF that helped alot b/c I was able to copy and paste and see your values in the palettes.  Can you help me to make the text shrink to fit the box - I don't want the box to gro...

I'm in LiveCycle Desginer 8.2 and I simply cannot get the text in the text box to shrink to fit if there is too much text. I've set the Font pallette to 0 and the baseline to 0pt too and still I keep getting a "+" in the form indicating that there is more text.  I've done it the CTRL F4 way as well....