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Old 05-21-2023, 10:48 AM
Irish15 Irish15 is offline Character Limit for Text Boxes in Word Windows 10 Character Limit for Text Boxes in Word Office 2016
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I've been searching to see if we can have character limits on text boxes in MS Word and have found nothing. Figured I would sign up here to see if anyone knows.

I have a MS Word Doc we are using a form with multiple text boxes. Each one has a character limit of 600 (including spaces). Can I set the text boxes to that? I've also been asked to see if we can include a countdown of the limit as they type but that is just a bonus if we can include it.

Thank you for any help on this.
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Charles Kenyon Charles Kenyon is offline Character Limit for Text Boxes in Word Windows 11 Character Limit for Text Boxes in Word Office 2021
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I know of no character limit, nor a way to set one.
A textbox is limited to being on a single page but you can link them so that text in one can flow into another.

Consider using a UserForm which would let you do the things you want.
The term text box as used above refers to the graphical element you get under Insert> Text Box. It does not refer to a text formfield or a plain text or rich text content control. The advice to consider a userform, though, does apply to those. A userform is a custom dialog box that can be used to get information from the user or otherwise control a Word document.



See also:
Those pages are about on-screen forms that mimic or produce paper forms. They are documents formatted to take information. UserForms and these other document formats can be used together.

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Thanks Charles. I will look into the User Form
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