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KimberlyC KimberlyC is offline
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Thanks!
That did the trick!!
"Rob van Gelder" wrote in message
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Kimberly,

A very crude way of doing it as follows:

Private Sub TextBox1_Change()
Const cMaxLines = 5
Dim lngSelStart As Long, strTemp As String, i As Long, j As Long,
lngTextLen As Long

With TextBox1
If .LineCount cMaxLines Then
lngSelStart = .SelStart
j = .LineCount - cMaxLines
strTemp = .Text
lngTextLen = Len(strTemp)
For i = lngTextLen To 1 Step -1
If Mid(strTemp, i, 1) = vbLf Then
j = j - 1
If j = 0 Then
.Text = Mid(strTemp, 1, i - 2)
.SelStart = lngSelStart
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
End If
End With
End Sub

Rob

"KimberlyC" wrote in message
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Hi

I have inserted a text box into my excel spreadsheet.
I've set it to use the enter key to move to the next line and set it to
have multiple lines.
Is there a way to limit the number of lines a user can fill?

I know you can set character limits...but I need to set line limits so

that
the entire box is shown when printed...and I can set it to grow

bigger...as
my sheet needs to fit on one page when printed

Thanks in advance for your help!!!
Kimberly