Thanks to everyone who responded regarding my request for additional help on keeping a field limited to 1 line. First, I definitely prefer an auto enter calc solution over a dialog box. Although the majority of my users are pretty savvy and familiar with our system, I have a few that use it maybe once every week or 2, and no matter how much training and help I provide, they either can't or won't remember a thing. And my experiences with dialogs in general are, nobody really reads the details, they just whack a button, then I have to clean up the mess. And finally, why ask the user to do something in 2, 3 or 4 steps that I can do in the background in 1?

So the Substitute function ( Substitute ( Self ; "Paragraph Symbol" ; "" )) does work fine for removing any carriage returns. My bigger question was (and maybe I didn't make it clear) that I also wanted to remove any additional text the user typed in after the carriage return. In testing the auto enter, I found that if a user input:
john (carriage return)
jim (carriage return)

The Substitute auto enter would result in: johnjim

What I want is: john

I also wanted to trap for more than one carriage return with data typed in so:
john (carriage return)
jim (carriage return)
amy (carriage return)
mark (carriage return)

Did not become" johnjimamymark

This may sound unlikely, but in our older FMP6 solution, ID'ing multiple people in a photo shoot was done this way.... now the names reside in a child table of People, entered in the system in a portal from the parent table.

So that's why I had included the RightWords steps in the substitute also, to try to remove anything after the first carriage return. If anyone has a more elegant fix for that, I'm all ears.

Thanks

Rick





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Rick O’Quinn
Photographic Services Coordinator
University of Georgia
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