freeze or limit text within a field or text box

[Guest]

In creating a document I am trying to limimt the text in certain areas and
prevent the text box or frame from enlarging and displacing the rest of my
document.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you're using form fields, you can limit the number of characters to be
entered, but this will not prevent users from pressing Enter and adding a
new line. Work around this by putting the form field in a table cell in a
row with exact height.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Beatles Fan:

If you right-click on either a text box or frame, you can specify the
vertical and horizontal sizes. In fact, the frame is the only one that will
resize to accommodate the text inside it. So I really don't see what the
problem is.

Since you're experimenting with text boxes and frames, why don't you try
tables as well? They, too, can have rows of a specified height, and columns
of a specified width.

Bear