MS Word 2003 Question

[S6PNJ]

Is there any way I can create a document (or text box) and ensure that it is kept to a word (or character) limit without manually using the word count feature? IE I want it to prevent me typing as soon as the limit is reached. I know this used to be able to be done, but I can't find out how in Word 2003.

TIA

[S6PNJ]

Any help from the night crew?

[mmm-five]

You need to create a text form field and then right-click on it to change the properties to allow a maximum number of characters (not words though).

There must be a VB way to do this as well, but that's too advanced for me!

[S6PNJ]

Many thanks. I've now 'turned on' the Forms tool bar, searched the help and managed to get it to work. Once the field is created, the doc must be protected or the formatting/character number doesn't work.

Cheers!!