I would like to limit the number of characters in a field to a specific amount. But when it reaches that amount before the commit the record, i would like it to stop give a message and not let them input any more... like "You have reached the limit on number of characters, no more"

You can of course do it as you leave the field by validating by calculation but I don't think that it can be done dynamically.

Phil

Thanks, i kinda thought that, i have tried it through the validation, but when people get to the end and it gives them the error message it removes what they last typed and then they have to estimate how many more characters they have left. Oh, well, I'll try something else.