The x value amount is based on twips- there are 1440 twips in an inch.

 

That being said it might be eaiser to just stick to field together in one formula

this gives you x and y in inches so you can multiply it by twips to get the position but the formula moves the field left (negative value) and right positive value relative to it's original starting position.

You will need to calulate the ending position of the field based on length of the data and then move the it around off of that.

The field size does not change so it is not the postion of the field but a position within the field.

you would actually be overlaying your two fields to get them side by side

you will have to calculate postion X to move left as:

(-1) *

(

(starting postion of right field in twips)

-

(starting positon of the left field in twips + the length of the word in twips)

)

to get the length in twips I would make a guess at the size of each character and multiply that by the len(field)

 

the size of each character will vary based on font type, size , bold etc.

but make a guess and move it up or down a bit until you get it right