It is much simpler than that. You could do something like this: messageLabel.Text = "Now that the world is through with me." & vbnewline & "I'm waking up, I can not see," & vbnewline & "That there is not much left of me." & vbnewline & "Nothing is real but pain now." That does it in vb.net 2005. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind