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I found the problem. I was referencing the wrong text box. There's no accounting for stupidity. Thanks, everyone, for your assistance. You gave me some great tips.

This is identical to what I have. Is there something I need to do to the counter text box that will force it to recognize the information being fed to it and react accordingly?

Still no change to my counter text box.

This has the DoEvent you mentioned earlier. Private Sub txtReportComment_KeyUp(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer) On Error GoTo Err_txtReportComment_KeyUp Dim intEntryChar, intResponseChar, intEntryLength, intResponseLength, intMaxChars As Integer intMaxChars = 255...

Still no luck.

That's a thought. Thanks.

Thanks for the info. However, the text box containing the count (Me.txtEntryCharacters.Value = intMaxChars - intEntryLength) is still not updating as I type. I need this textbox to update as the user types so they know how many characters they have left until they hit their max limit.

Good morning. I'm Gary and I work in Arlington, Texas. For those of you who are not local, that's halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth in north central Texas. I come from many years of Access development, just not much with VBA. Just a few basic commands. I really need to get more in...

I have a long, multi-line text box that has a limited number of characters. I have another text box that I'd like to display the remaining characters as the user types in the first one. I'm able to get a variable to keep the count and I'm able to get the second text box to display the character...