Is there any way to get a line count from a text field?

Let me explain:

I have set up a text field box to 2.5 inches wide set the font to

"Times New Roman PS Italic" and the point size to 10.

The above info is important because when I select that text field

it is placed into a text box (2.5 inches wide) in a desktop publishing program (QuarkXpress) and styled with font and size info as above.

The count of lines is important because that will determine the depth of the box in QuarkXpress.

Thanks in advance

Dave

If you use a return at the end of each line you can use pattercount of the returns.

Otherwise you can estimate the number of lines with the length / average number of characters per line.

Thanks Ralph

Dave