Is there a way to make a field dynamically self aware? Like displaying how many characters is being typed into a field without having to commit the record first or stopping the user from typing more characters then allowed under field options without having to commit the record?

Pretty much like a web form field where one cannot type in more characters then allowed.

Use a web form??

There could be the possiblity of using an event trigger but there would be tons of flashing.

Thanks. I'm just gonna give up on this small project and will make it in Excel.