Title: Restricted word count
Last modified: April 7, 2017

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# Restricted word count

 *  [Popeye1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/popeye1/)
 * (@popeye1)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-word-count/)
 * Hi.
    I want to limit contact form messages to 40 words. So people type in 40 
   spaces (between words) and that’s their limit. Can this be done? Thanks, Steve

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 *  Thread Starter [Popeye1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/popeye1/)
 * (@popeye1)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-word-count/#post-9008836)
 * I found this and will try it out.
    [https://www.ninthlink.com/2010/12/30/contact-form-7-textarea-wordcount/](https://www.ninthlink.com/2010/12/30/contact-form-7-textarea-wordcount/)

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