Text entry

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I have a text field that is 50 characters long.
This text is entered on a form.
The entry box is quite wide as you would expect.
Is there any way of sizing the box to the exact length of the text?
Should I be using a proportional font?
User is complaining because they think they can enter more text because the
box still contains white space. They can use upper and lower case characters
and I am currently using MS Sans Serif.
Any ideas?
 
I have a text field that is 50 characters long.
This text is entered on a form.
The entry box is quite wide as you would expect.
Is there any way of sizing the box to the exact length of the text?
Should I be using a proportional font?
User is complaining because they think they can enter more text because the
box still contains white space. They can use upper and lower case characters
and I am currently using MS Sans Serif.
Any ideas?
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Only by using a fixed-pitch font such as Courier or System. The text
strings

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

and

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

will simply be of different lengths in any proportional font.

Does this user feel that it's obligatory to completely fill the screen
window in a Word document? If she needs more room, could you perhaps
change the field to 255 bytes, or to a (basically unlimited) Memo
field?

John W. Vinson[MVP]
 
i don't know about resizing the control dynamically, but another solution
might be to use an input mask that allows exactly 50 character/spaces. the
user would see a black "line" as s/he begins typing in the control - end of
the line means end of the available space.

hth
 
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