Let me apologize to the list.. I did not give enough detail to the VB6 project I was talking about. This whole project is to take a single .TXT file with 62,025 words in it and generate multiple sequential files with 20 words in them. I would use these smaller files with a commercial program called crossword forge that can create either word search puzzles to print or crossword puzzles to print. I am not making a blind accesible crossword program or word search program. That is years in the future after I do lots more reading on VB6 programming. but of the two...the word search one might be possible Robert