Why am I seeing an error message <--- > when entering text into the form?
If you cut and paste text into the form from an exisiting document and exceed the character limit, an error message will appear, indicating how much text needs to be removed. A symbol ‘< ----- >‘ will appear within the body of the text to indicate where the limit is for the box. The form counts all blank space as part of the content of each box, so if you are short of space it may help if you delete extra carriage returns and place any bulleted lists into paragraph format. Please take particular care when removing excess text below the ‘,< ----- >‘ symbol that you also remove the carriage returns, otherwise the application alert will still note that you have too much text in the field. Many applicants have found it helpful to initially copy and paste a block of text into the field to get an idea of the amount of space allocated. We do understand that you may experience difficulties with the current limitation to the form in producing a character limit and welcome any feedback that may
