Textbox in forms

[Lorena]

Hi

I am designing a message and have a textbox that I want to set to have a
restricted number of characters. Normally it would hold 16, but for security
purposes, I want to show the last 10 of the 16. I stumbled onto PasswordChar
and thought that might help, but that hides all the information typed in. Is
there a way to set PasswordChar to hide only the first 6. I tried validation
and was not sure how to set it so the number would have to be

999999999999999 and ,<10000000000000000, if that is possible. One error I

dont know if fixable but, I came across the problem right after the following
message "the data you entered is not valid" appears, and when I tried to
change the informtion in the box, the delete button and the backspace
wouldn't work. I am not too at all program savy, but if you can help, it's
much appreciated.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Hi Lorena, you have several issues here, so let's take them one at a time.

I am designing a message and have a textbox that I want to set to have a
restricted number of characters. Normally it would hold 16, but for security
purposes, I want to show the last 10 of the 16. I stumbled onto PasswordChar
and thought that might help, but that hides all the information typed in. Is
there a way to set PasswordChar to hide only the first 6.

No. PasswordChar is an all-or-nothing setting. To do what you want to do, you'd have to develop a custom control and install it on every machine.

I tried validation
and was not sure how to set it so the number would have to be

Is the field bound to the textbox a numeric field?

One error I
dont know if fixable but, I came across the problem right after the following
message "the data you entered is not valid" appears, and when I tried to
change the informtion in the box, the delete button and the backspace
wouldn't work.

Again, knowing what kind of data field you're using would be very helpful.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers