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How to limit text height entered into a Legacy Form Text Form Field
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Hopefully someone can help me here as Ive spent hours looking on the web for an answer I have created a form which is protected, so people can only see the form and then enter text into Text Form Fields. When I type into this field, the text wraps around before it reaches the end (width) of the box but not the height! How do I limit the text so that the number of lines typed in is only as much as is visible within the box? (height)? thanks d |
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How to limit text height entered into a Legacy Form Text Form Field
In the unprotected form template, right-click the Text Form Field and set
the maximum number of characters. You can work out the maximum that will fit by typing 8s into the field and counting the characters (an 8 being the widest character). You could add a few extra characters to that total because it is safe to assume that someone will not fill it exclusively with 8s and Bs, but you will stop the problem. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "corelli" wrote in message ... Hi folks Hopefully someone can help me here as Ive spent hours looking on the web for an answer I have created a form which is protected, so people can only see the form and then enter text into Text Form Fields. When I type into this field, the text wraps around before it reaches the end (width) of the box but not the height! How do I limit the text so that the number of lines typed in is only as much as is visible within the box? (height)? thanks d -- corelli |
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How to limit text height entered into a Legacy Form Text Form Field
Although you can limit the number of characters as Terry suggests, an
approach often used by form designers is to place the form field in a table cell with preferred column width (auto resizing disabled) and exact row height. Although users can enter more than can be displayed or printed, they will usually get the message when their text starts disappearing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "corelli" wrote in message ... Hi folks Hopefully someone can help me here as Ive spent hours looking on the web for an answer I have created a form which is protected, so people can only see the form and then enter text into Text Form Fields. When I type into this field, the text wraps around before it reaches the end (width) of the box but not the height! How do I limit the text so that the number of lines typed in is only as much as is visible within the box? (height)? thanks d -- corelli |
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