>Sergey,
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>From an appearance point of view - not ideal, but acceptable.

How is it different from textbox if you make it one line heigh? Don't forget to set AddLineFeeds=.F. to let enter move to the next control. You may have to adjust some other properties also.

>Which property would return 4 for an input of 'abc '?
>

? LEN(Thisform.edit.Value)