Dear All,

I'd like to set up a pop up message or some kind of prompt if a user types particular words in one field. For example if they type "apple" a prompt woudl appear to say " You cannot type apple". How could this be done?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

hutia

Hi,

As far as I know, we can't complete this scenario with field. And we might do it via some Active x controls and VBA code.

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I have some JavaScript-based pseudo-code:

textField.onUpdate = function() {
  var text = textField.value;
  for (i in text.split(" ")) {
    if (i in bannedWords) {
      alert("That's a banned word!")
    }
  }
}

I hope this helps!