Goal: To restrict users from entering text beyond a certain point.

Purpose: To avoid 2 or 3 sentances from being printed on a second page. (Save paper)

What I've tried: validating by character count.

Why this doesn't work: FM doesn't take hard returns into account, and Ucase characters take up more space than lcase ones.

Latest idea: To validate by calculation that would limit the printable area to a certain number of rows in the text box.

Is that possible?

Edited June 29, 200619 yr by Guest

Sorry, but it isn't possible to limit by the number of rows. Your best bet is to figure so average maximum for counting characters.

John Mark, Thanks for weighing in. I really appreciate it even though my idea won't work.

I just wish there was a way that I could monitor the way FM allows text editing to auto expand your text boxes. Once that starts happening, the text doesn't show up unless the actual field is lengthened in layout mode. This is what I'm trying to avoid.

That's true but you can make your text field as long as the longest possible entry and use sliding objects to reduce the size.

It looks like a hard Return counts as one character can you verify this?