Ugh is common app being stupid for anyone else?

<p>In supplements, where you have character limits for some boxes, when I save the app, it says that the short answers exceeds the space given, EVEN though right below the box, it says, "Characters left in your response 9". or a similar number. anyone else getting this? or know how to fix it?</p>

<p>thanks so much!</p>

<p>Did you copy and paste new things into the boxes? I found that when I tried to copy and paste something that was too long into a box to replace old writing, it would not even let me paste, but if I was copying and pasting into the middle of some old writing and the addition pushed it past the word limit, it would. The new word count wouldn't show up unless you I the cursor at the end of the text and put in a space or a new character. I'm not sure if that helps.</p>