Forcing a field to have equal returns to another

[Cousin Jack]

Hello everyone,

Can anyone help me with an annoying layout problem please?

My solution includes an auditing layout with a number of printed questions (of varying length) in a "shrink to fit on printing" field (A) on the left with a corresponding empty box for ticks on the right (.

Is there any way I can get the empty field (: for the ticks to correspond in length when printed to the field containing data (A) without the user having to manually enter carriage returns in ( to match the number of lines entered in the first field (A)?

Many thanks for your help

CJ

FileMaker Version: 6

Platform: Windows XP

[cjaeger]

put a calc field behind with

left("q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|q|", patterncount(fielda,"q|")

q|=carriage return