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Message: [QUOTE="p0, post: 5460657"] There is an option which does exactly what you want, though it is a highly complex one. It is possible to map your content control to a piece of custom xml within your document. And it is possible to define an xml schema for that custom xml. In the schema you can define your xml elements as a string type with limitations in length (and allowed characters). If you assign that schema to your Word document, you can use it for validation. Then if someone would enter more than your given number of characters, a curly red line would appear under their input and they wouldn't be able to save the document. Right clicking the underlined part would even tell them what they did wrong. The problem is that by default, the mapping of content controls and custom xml is not entirely straightforward. You would probably need tools like [URL]http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=dbe[/URL] On a side note, although rather complex, custom xml is actually the way to go as it would allow you to easily extract and manipulate the entered data afterwards. Yves [/QUOTE]