Hello everyone,
I am facing the following problem:
A textbox activeX control must be multilined and autosized. When I make these settings though, every time I use the textbox it changes line on every letter I type.



is there any solution for that?

Thanks in advance.

If you want to allow multi-line input and have the width expand to accommodate the number of characters on a line, you need to set:
• AutoSize = True
• Multiline = True
• WordWrap = False
and either set:
• EnterKeyBehaviour = True
or rely on Shift-Enter to insert new lines.

One problem you may experience is the textbox scrolling the top line out of view. Scrolling back to the top should fix that.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hello macropod,
thanks a lot for the reply. Unfortunately it doesn't work 100% correctly because the user must press enter every time to change line otherwise the text extends the page. I would like the user not to notice that he is writing in an activeX text box though.

I am trying to solve the problem with macro commands but no success yet. Is there any way to take the length of each line in a text box? Then a if case would solve the problem.

In that case, if you want multi-line, why are you also using auto-size as well? Also, why are you using an ActiveX control? It seems to me you could achieve much the same result as you seem to be after via a single-cell table.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]