As the others have mentioned, wire together logic in the KeyDown event procedure. You'll have to make sure the textbox is set to handle multiple lines, as well. "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

Use the KeyDown event, inside check if the Return key was pressed. If it was then you can check how many characters are in the current line. If there are not enough characters in the line then set e.Handled to true to ignore key. My current favourite word is: Nipple! -SK Genius Game Programming articles start -here[^]-