How do you make a text box character limit limitless. I am using a text box to enter a diary of a problem. This there fore needs to be quite big, is there a different kind of box i should be using?

Make the field in the table a "Memo" field.

Per the Help file:
Text Field limit 255 characters
Memo Field limit 65,535

Michael Abrams

[This message has been edited by mrabrams (edited 04-17-2001).]

Thanks for the answer.

I have a new problem now, i need to be able to press return on the keyboard to get to a new line. At prersent this just goes to the next text field.

In the properties for the text box in question, there is a property called:
Enter Key Behavior.

Set it to "Next Line in field"

Michael Abrams

Thanks.

One final question on this subject. is it possible for the Entries into the memo to be time/date stampted so that it can be seen when each entry was made?

Why are you making multiple entries in one field instead of creating a subform to hold each entry as a separate record? Then time stamping would be a snap, and the data would be better organized and accessible.