Microsoft KB Archive/93706

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WD: FILLIN Field Is Limited to 255 Characters

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Q93706

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.1a, 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c, 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a

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SUMMARY
The Word FILLIN field prompts you for text that is used as the FILLIN field result. The maximum number of characters that can be entered in a FILLIN field is 255.

To allow the user to type more than 255 characters, you can use the WordBasic InputBox$ command.

MORE INFORMATION
The InputBox$ command displays a dialog box requesting a single item of data and returns the text entered in the dialog box when the user chooses the OK button.

The syntax is as follows

  a$ = InputBox$(Prompt$ [,Title$] [,Default$]) where:

  Prompt$  is the text displayed in the dialog box.

Title$  is the title displayed in the title bar of the dialog box; if omitted, Word uses the title &quot;Microsoft Word&quot;.

Default$ is the default text proposed in the text box of the dialog box. The InputBox$ command in the following macro assigns the text you enter to the &quot;a$&quot; variable. The EditGoTo command is used to move the insertion point to a defined bookmark name before inserting the contents of the a$ variable.

  Sub MAIN a$ = InputBox$(&quot;Type text&quot;) EditGoTo &quot;bookmark&quot; Insert a$  End Sub For information about how to do this in Word 97, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

"Q159261 Textbox Form Control Circumvents 255 Character Limit of Fillin" Additional query words: InputBox$

Keywords : kbmacro kbfield winword macword word6 winword2 word7 word95

Issue type :

Technology : kbHWMAC kbOSMAC kbWordSearch kbWordMacSearch kbWord700Search kbZNotKeyword2 kbWord600Mac kbWord601aMac kbWord601Mac kbWord600 kbWord600a kbWord600c kbWord200 kbWord200a kbWord200b kbWord200c kbWord100 kbWord110 kbWord700 kbWord110a kbWord700a