Limit text box from growing

[lyalem]

I have a simple text field on a layout that I want users to be able to type into, but I want to control how many lines they can write. I don't want them to be able to press return many times as that would make the text box too big on the printing layout. Is there a way to control this? I do see that I can control how many characters can go in a field, but that's not exactly what I'm thinking. Thanks.

[Lee Smith]

First of all, you can do this by limiting the number of characters allowed in the field by the Options for the field. Select the Field in Define Fields, Options >> Validations >> Number of characters.

It will have to be tinkered with to get Approximately the number of words and lines you want.

This Topic has come up in the past. IMHO, I do not like this approach, I would rather use a field and scroll bars to limit the size of the field layout, and print out the data from a Print Layout. You could then use Slide/Printing Function for printing the data.

HTH

Lee