It would appear you have missed the point. Before this gets out of hand let me clarify: multi-lining does NOT give you control over the starting font. What it DOES do is shrink the starting text slightly. This may or may not work depending on what you're looking for. For my purposes, and at least one other person uses this workaround, it is sufficient.To drive the point home, one of the forms I am working on has a field text that is roughly 4.8 inches wide. With the font set to auto-shrink for t...

Flrorian - I get what Radzmar said. What I'm trying to convey here is that if you set the box to allow multiple lines, as both I and SI_MSD7 said, it will shrink the text slightly to give you a smaller starting text size.

I also stumbled into the "allow multiple line" as a partial fix. While checking that option does not let you control the starting font size, it does shrink the starting font size a bit making the font look more appropriate with forms designed in the 10-11 font size range.

Thanks for the posts but no one has answered the question conclusively yet.