Automatically adjust font size

[srholden]

Hi,

I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find the relevant post...

In writing school reports teachers are given a fixed size of field to make comments in. The field is set to font size 12 but some teachers exceed their given number of lines. Although the field expands to fill all their comments, when it comes to printing, some of this text is lost.

Is there a way of making the font size change (to a smaller size) AS THEY ARE TYPING which would alert them to their excessive use of words??

Thanks for your patience.

[mr_vodka]

This is imperfect because some words are longer than others so you would still have to watch what your users type. Anyway, you can try something like:

Case (

WordCount ( yourfield ) > 20; TextSize ( yourfield; 9 );

WordCount ( yourfield ) > 10; TextSize ( yourfield; 10 );

WordCount ( yourfield ) > 5; TextSize ( yourfield; 12 )

)

You would make your text field an auto enter calculation.

BTW, It may be more wise to use a character count instead of a word count.