I'm not sure what the tick marks should be used for? If you create a
form in Word, you can choose to limit each text field to the desired
number of characters. Also, to get control over field placement, you'd
insert each field in a table cell with fixed dimensions. See:

I'm designing a form that needs to have "fill-in-the-blanks" lines.
What is the best way to create them?
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/LinesInForms.htm

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"kimlogan77" wrote in message
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I need to place tick marks in a cell in a table i created. These
"tick marks"
will be used to control the number of characters entered per field
to avoid
text wrapping and changing the format of the form. I would like to
place the
little lines in cells for "state" (2), "zip code" (9 spaces plus
hyphen),
etc. Please, please, please help.