Take a look at the MaxLength property for a text box or edit box

>Hi.
>Is there a way to format a field easily . Say I want to accept only twenty characters, what I have done in the past is put xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx into the format field.
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>Looking back on it subsequently, it is quite difficult to count the number of x's . Is there a way of saying something like X(20)
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>Regards,
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>Gerard