Resizing warps text fields

Maybe someone can help...
My animations contain quite a lot of text fields. When I
resize my movie before publishing, the text fields seem to shrink
but the text does not, therefore cutting off some text. The fields
are also no longer in the spot they were in before, meaning that
they are not adjusted along with the slides.
Am I doing something wrong?
By the way, when I resize, I have the box checked next to
'Resize captions, objects etc".

Hi Snaklidoo
Are these Text Entry Boxes? Where your user can type into the
field? If so, the only thing that comes to mind is that you are
sizing to make things smaller, but the actual font used for each of
them isn't being scaled smaller. I don't believe the fonts get
adjusted. Similar to Text Captions. There is a lower limit where
they cannot be sized any smaller and the font is never updated. If
this is what is happening, the only solution that comes to mind is
that you could adjust the font in one of them, then select Apply to
all and pull that shotgun trigger to propagate the changes.
Cheers... Rick

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